L’AGENCE MAGIC
Ecrit par François Truffaut with Claude de Givray and Bernard Revon
read by Lambert Wilson - saturday 29 - 10:00 am- Centre des Congrès
The eccentric members of a variety show are preparing a series of performances in Dakar. An enigmatic, solitary automaton, the “Dauphin”, joins them…
L’Agence Magic, written in 1977, was François Trffaut’s last film project ; it remained unfinished. This original screenplay will for the first time have a public reading.
Free entry - Centre des Congrès - Salle Fondation Gan
JE VIENDRAI SEUL Mia Hansen Löve
Produced by Humbert Balsan – Ognon Picture
read by François Cluzet - sunday 23 - 2:30pm
This film is about the end of a relationship, and the renewing of ties 12 years later.
1992. Victor and Annette, in their thirties, live in Vienna with their little girl, Pamela. Even in the face of Victor’s drug addiction and torment, they have stayed together. A few months later, they move to Paris and Victor lets himself go despite everyone’s support. Their relationship begins to deteriorate, and after a heated argument, Annette kicks him out. He goes to stay at Marion’s, the young woman who supplies his drugs, and falls in love. Annette and Pamela leave him for good and disappear. 2004. Pamela, now a teenager, lives in Paris with her mother and father-in-law. One day she learns that Victor is also in Paris. Her Aunt Martine encourages her to go see him…
Mis Hansen Löve was born in 1981. After receiving her masters in German philosophy in Paris, she made a short film, Après mûre réflexion, in 2003 that was well received, and last year she filmed Un pur esprit, now in post-production. She was cast for a part in Olivier Assayas’ Late August, Early September (1999) and Les Destinées (2000). In 2001, she began studying at the municipal Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris’ 10th district. Mia Hansen Löve also contributes to the Cahiers du Cinéma .
L’HEURE DE LA SORTIE
Elise Griffon and Sébastien Marnier
read by Anny Romand and Jean-Hugues Anglade - thursday 27 - 2:30 pm
A young secondary school professor jumps out of a window in the middle of a class with his junior students who witness his suicide. Pierre Hoffman, a colleague at the beginning of his career, takes over his students. Their strangely calm, disciplined behavior belies a certain distress that conceals a fierce determination linked to some mysterious project.
Elise Griffon et Sébastien Marnier both studied cinematography and have made several short films (Le Grand Avoir, Violetta and Le beau Jacques in 2003). They co-directed three documentaries for CIRAD in 2002, as well as a promotional ad for the 2004 International Exposition. Their first feature film screenplay is an adaptation of Christophe Dufossé’s novel L’Heure de la sortie , which won the Prix du premier roman for 2002.
L’HOMME QUI MARCHEAurélia Georges, co-written with Elodie Monlibert (Collaboration to the script : Pascale Ferran)
Produced by Cédric Walter – Château-Rouge Production
read by Jean-François Stévenin - monday 24 - 2:30 pm
Paris, the mid ‘70s. A photographer is taken by the emaciated, tenebrous face of a man and makes his acquaintance. The man’s name is Viktor Atemian. This is the story of how he suddenly becomes a writer, meets with success then hits on hard times and ends up on the street. A film about Paris, the passing of time, renunciation, and plunges into the void
Aurélia Georges was born in Paris in 1973. She graduated from la Femis and made two documentaries, one a video clip for Arte, and five short films including Sur la pente, screened at the Premiers Plans Festival in 2002. She works as a production assistant, contributes to the magazine L’Art du Cinéma, and reads scenarios for Pandora Cinema. Aurelia Georges is also a member of the selection committee for la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.
Elodie Monlibert was born in Lille in 1973. Since her studies at Paris 8 and la Femis, she has done scrip writing and directing. She made her first short film, La Petite Chambre, in 2003. After co-writing L’Homme qui marche, Elodie Monlibert began working on her first feature film Zima, Hiver.
L’ANNÉE SUIVANTE
Isabelle Czajka
Produced by Serge Duveau – Pickpocket Productions
Emmanuelle is 15. It’s summer, and she is not on vacation. She stayed home in the Val d’Oise suburb, the final stop of an RER train line, far from Paris, because her father François is seriously ill. He dies at the end of August. Emmanuelle’s sophomore school year begins and everything in her life changes that year.
Born in Paris in 1962, Isabelle Czajka graduated from the Louis Lumière National College. Assistant camerawoman for TV and film (The Lovers on the Bridge, Unpredictable Nature of the River), she made her first documentaryTout à Inventer in 1998. In 2002, she made the short film La Cible, which screened at numerous European festivals. Her first feature film screenplay, L’Année suivante obtained a rewriting grant from the Atelier de Production Centre Val de Loire.
LA FORTUNE
Laurent de Bartillat , co-écrit avec Alain Ross
Produced by Geoffroy Grison – BVNG Productions
Lucie, a 25-year-old student, is researching the painter Watteau’s works. She is persuaded there is symbolism in hundreds of his canvases that has never been deciphered. Her encounter with the enigmatic Vincent, mute since birth, disrupts her research and she finds herself caught up in a scheme that dates two centuries back.
After studying Art History at the Sorbonne, Laurent de Bartillat, born in 1963, made his first short film La villa du Cap in 1988 followed by Sang d’Encre screened in numerous European countries. He made Blème, his third short, in 1998. Since 1991, he has made numerous documentaries for TV and cable. He recently co-wrote Stop, a planetary inventory of the ecological state of the world.
Alain Ross began working in theatre with the Torn Curtain Company in London back in the ‘90s and then worked with the Atelier de la rue Michèle in Paris. Writer and actor, in 1994 he also directed Beast, a play he co-wrote. In 1997 he turned to film and made Bound, his first short followed by the feature film L’Attrape-rêves in 2000.
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