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A first try, a stroke of genius. For his first feature film, Jean-François Stévenin, actor, but also an assistant well acquainted with film sets, invents a magic formula. While he may claim his admiration of hysteria as shown by John Cassavetes and the dryness of Monte Hellman, he suddenly introduces a new approach. At every decisionmaking point of filmmaking, Stévenin chooses to destroy all established codes and spectacularly break all the rules: cast, editing, sound, etc. Everything here is surprising, as if it were a permanent evasion: from slow editing, from real sound, from narrative continuity… in short, all obvious actions and routines. The screenplay? Two men on a mountain, a shady mechanic (Stévenin himself) and a Parisian architect (the magnificent Villeret) who have nothing in common, establish a friendship, quite coincidentally and without saying so. And it is those silences, these stammered dialogues, all that remains unsaid that allows the film to follow this friendship, troubling as it may be. (Viennale)
(more)Cast
Jean-François Stévenin
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Day for Night (1973)
Small Change (1976)
Jacques Villeret
France
Best movies:
The Dinner Game (1998)
Un amour de pluie (1974)
The Common Man (1975)
Jean-François Balmer
Switzerland
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Cop or Hood (1979)
East Wind (1993)
Michel Tugot-Doris
Best movies:
La Rumba (1987)
The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985)
For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now (1982)
Richard Guedj
Best movies:
Taxi 2 (2000)
Safe Conduct (2002)
Boudu (2005)
Jacques Hansen
Best movies:
L'Homme que j'aime (1997) (TV movie)
Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes (2001)
Malone (2002) (series)
Claude Robin
Best movies:
The Big Blue (1988)
Dans un grand vent de fleurs (1996) (series)
François Robert
Best movies:
La Dernière Nuit (1981) (TV movie)
Fantômas (1980) (series)
Wedding in Blood (1973)
Oskar Freitag
Best movies:
Line of Demarcation (1966)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1976)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) (series)