Violent Days

Black and white, 35 mm
France, 2004, 80 min
Section: Forum of Independents
Oficiální stránky: www.shellac-altern.org

Synopsis

A group of friends living in Paris have two things in common: their love for 1950’s rock‘n’roll music and their working-class origins. On the weekend, after a night of beers and stupid fights, they set off in a half-wrecked car for a rock concert at Le Havre. A young woman, her boyfriend and two other young men get lost, fight again, get lost again and finally end up at a beach near Le Havre. The concert is getting under way and the whole of the French rockabilly scene is there. Lots of beer is consumed again. Somebody starts a fistfight. Then the concert is over and our friends leave, heading back to Paris... This black-and-white road-movie, shot in a style reminiscent of early Jim Jarmusch or Aki Kaurismäki, is set in a vague time-span. It could be the 1950s, the 1970s, or maybe even today...

About the director

Lucile Chaufour directed her first documentary film, Léone, mère et fils, in 1988. In 1992 she directed her first short film, L’Amertume du chocolat. Violent Days (2004) is her first feature film.