Country: France
Year: 2023
Duration: 73'
It was the last party of the summer, the day before I went to Montreal. With my friends Olga, Damoh, Ninon, Céleste, Jules and my brother, Youn, we’d decided to continue the party on the island.
Biography
film director
Damien Manivel
After working as a dancer, he directed several remarked short films including La dame au chien (2011), which won the Jean Vigo Prize. Since 2014, he has written and directed five feature films presented at the major film festivals, including Un jeune poète (2014), receiving the Special Mention of Jury Cineasti del Presente in Locarno and winner of the Pesaro Film Festival among others, Le parc (2016), presented at the Cannes Acid, winner in Jeonju and selected in Turin, Takara - La nuit où j'ai nagé (2018, directed with Kohei Igarashi), presented in Venice, Les enfants d'Isadora (2019), awarded with the Best Director Prize in Locarno and Magdala which made its world premiere at the ACID Cannes 2022 selection.
FILMOGRAFIA
Viril (cm, 2007), Soit sage ô ma douleur (cm, 2008), La dame au chien (cm, 2010), Un dimanche matin (cm, 2012), Un jeune poète (2014), Le parc (2016), Takara - La nuit où j'ai nagé (Takara - La notte che ho nuotato, coregia Kohei Igarashi, 2018), Les enfants d'Isadora (2019), Magdala (2022), L'Île (2023).
Declaration
film director
“The island is the memory of Rosa, who spends her last party with her group of friends, it's the end of her adolescence. We hang on her face and relive the gestures and words that marked her during this last night. It is also a document on seven young actors who try, thanks to their imagination, to give birth to a film. And it is the portrait of a film crew, the one that has accompanied me for years and whose generous presence the film records. It's a very personal film for which I wanted to invent a cinematographic form where the superposition of images and sounds creates this feeling of eternity and nostalgia specific to adolescence and film making.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, EDITING: Damien Manivel. STORY: Damien Manivel, Julien Dieudonné. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mathieu Gaudet. SOUND: Jérôme Petit, Simon Apostolou. CAST: Damoh Ikhetah, Olga Milshtein, Ninon Botz, Youn Berder, Jules Danger, Céleste Dumesnil, Rosa Berder. PRODUTTORI: Martin Bertier, Damien Manivel. PRODUCTION: MLD Films.
CONTACT: The Open Reel (Cosimo Santoro) cs@theopenreel.com
