Country: USA
Year: 2014
Duration: 105'
Despite his young age, Andrew Neiman has a very ambitious objective. He wants to be known for his talent, and he will do so by becoming the best jazz drummer in the elite music conservatory in Manhattan where he studies. He feels the burden of his father’s failed career as a writer. But one night, while he is practicing, Terence Fletcher drops in: the famous conductor, known both for his talent for teaching and for his unconventional methods discovers him. It’s a unique opportunity for Andrew to prove his talent. But the pressure exerted by his demanding instructor and his own maniacal efforts and ambition will push him to the very limit.
Biography
film director
Damien Chazelle
Damien Chazelle (USA, 1985) grew up between Paris and Princeton (New Jersey), where he studied to become a jazz drummer. In 2003, he received awards at America’s Best High School Jazz Competition and the Dunellen Invitational Jazz Festival. He shot his first short film Mon Père in 2004, and I Thought I Heard Him Say and Kiwi the following year. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) began as a short for his thesis at Harvard and turned into his debut feature, presented in several festivals, including Tribeca and the Torino Film Festival. He won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction in 2013 with Whiplash, and the Gran Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award in 2014 for the feature-length version.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mon père (cm, 2004), I Thought I Heard Him Say (cm, 2005), Kiwi (cm, 2006), Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), Whiplash (cm, 2013), Whiplash (2014).
Declaration
film director
“With Whiplash, I wanted to make a movie about music that felt like a war movie, or a gangster movie – where instruments replaced weapons, where words felt as violent as guns, and where the action unfolded not on a battlefield, but in a school rehearsal room, or on a concert stage.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Damien Chazelle
fotografia/cinematography
Sharone Meir
montaggio/film editing
Tom Cross
scenografia/production design
Melanie Paizis-Jones
musica/music
Justin Hurwitz
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Miles Teller (Andrew), J.K. Simmons (Fletcher), Melissa Benoist (Nicole), Paul Reiser (Jim), Austin Stowell (Ryan), Nate Lang (Carl), Max Kasch (il vicino di stanza/dorm neighbor), Damon Gupton (Mr Kramer)
produttori/producers
Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak
produzione/production
Bold Films, Right of Way Films, Blumhouse Productions
coproduttore/coproducer
Nicholas Britell
distribuzione/distribution
Sony Pictures Classics
Damien Chazelle
fotografia/cinematography
Sharone Meir
montaggio/film editing
Tom Cross
scenografia/production design
Melanie Paizis-Jones
musica/music
Justin Hurwitz
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Miles Teller (Andrew), J.K. Simmons (Fletcher), Melissa Benoist (Nicole), Paul Reiser (Jim), Austin Stowell (Ryan), Nate Lang (Carl), Max Kasch (il vicino di stanza/dorm neighbor), Damon Gupton (Mr Kramer)
produttori/producers
Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak
produzione/production
Bold Films, Right of Way Films, Blumhouse Productions
coproduttore/coproducer
Nicholas Britell
distribuzione/distribution
Sony Pictures Classics
contatti/contacts
Sony Pictures
Susan Senk
