Gente de bien
Franco Lolli
Eric is 10 and overnight finds he has to live with Gabriel, his father who he hardly knows. Seeing that he is having trouble building a relationship with his son and meeting his needs, Maria Isabel, the woman Gabriel works for as a joiner, decides to take the child under her wing.
With : Brayan Santamaria, Carlos Fernando Perez, Alejandra Borrero
Screenplay : Franco Lolli, Catherine Paillé
Image : Oscar Duran
Sound : Matthieu Perrot, Josefina Rodriguez
Editing : Nicolas Desmaison, Julie Duclaux
Screenplay : Franco Lolli, Catherine Paillé
Image : Oscar Duran
Sound : Matthieu Perrot, Josefina Rodriguez
Editing : Nicolas Desmaison, Julie Duclaux
Production : Geko Films, Grégoire Debailly, 12 rue de Silly, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France / +33(0)1 41 86 92 00 / Email : gdebailly2@gmail.com
Co-production : Evidencia Films, Franco Lolli / Email : evidenciafilms@gmail.com
Distribution: Ad Vitam, Gregory Gajos, 71, rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 75011 Paris, France / Tél. : +33(0)1 46 34 75 74 / Email : contact@advitamdistribution.com
Co-production : Evidencia Films, Franco Lolli / Email : evidenciafilms@gmail.com
Distribution: Ad Vitam, Gregory Gajos, 71, rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 75011 Paris, France / Tél. : +33(0)1 46 34 75 74 / Email : contact@advitamdistribution.com
Franco Lolli was born in 1983 in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied cinema in the directing department of La fémis. His graduation film, Como todo el mundo, was selected by more than 50 international festivals and won 26 awards, including the Grand Prix for School Films at the Festival Premiers Plans in 2008. His short film, Rodri was also selected for Premiers Plans in 2013, in the French Short Films category. The same year Gente de bien, his first feature, was selected for the screenplay readings at Premiers Plans, and was read by Natacha Régnier and Samir Guesmi.
For my first feature, Gente de bien, [...] I am exploring characters from two very distinct social backgrounds and the meeting of these two backgrounds: the time of the dream, the place of the dream. And even if this project is also realistic and intimist, and my working methods will again be on the fringes of documentary, it will not just be a chronicle, but also a moral tale. The meeting of the two social environments is part of a broader and more intimate story: that of the difficult encounter between a father and a son. Where my previous films came from my experiences as an adult and a teenager, this one is intrinsically linked to feelings from my childhood. But with this feature I aspire to much more than that. I want to create a new cinematographic point of view, simultaneously dignified, harsh and loving in relation to a country that is all too often shown didactically or through rose-tinted glasses. And through this I want to accomplish a dream that I have always had: to meet my father.
For my first feature, Gente de bien, [...] I am exploring characters from two very distinct social backgrounds and the meeting of these two backgrounds: the time of the dream, the place of the dream. And even if this project is also realistic and intimist, and my working methods will again be on the fringes of documentary, it will not just be a chronicle, but also a moral tale. The meeting of the two social environments is part of a broader and more intimate story: that of the difficult encounter between a father and a son. Where my previous films came from my experiences as an adult and a teenager, this one is intrinsically linked to feelings from my childhood. But with this feature I aspire to much more than that. I want to create a new cinematographic point of view, simultaneously dignified, harsh and loving in relation to a country that is all too often shown didactically or through rose-tinted glasses. And through this I want to accomplish a dream that I have always had: to meet my father.