Archive of films White Skin / La peau blanche

Canada
2004, 89 min

Section: Focus on Canadian Film: Beginning of the 3rd Millennium
Year: 2005

Student Thierry falls in love with the attractive musician Claire. But this banal "boy meets girl" love story changes into an intricate horror film à la David Cronenberg.

Synopsis

Montreal. Student Thierry wants to celebrate his birthday with his roommate, a Haitian named Henri, by romping with a couple of call girls they chance to meet at a bar. Once in the sack, Henri’s partner brutally attacks him and runs away. The friends assume that it was a racially motivated attack, but the truth is far more horrifying. Soon after, Thierry meets a mysterious redhead, music student Claire, and he recognizes in her sister the unknown assailant. While the more suspicious Henri delves into David Cronenberg videos and studies web pages about vampires, Thierry refuses to believe that the family of his pale skinned love is not quite on the up and up. Inspired by Joël Champetier’s novel (he also cowrote the screenplay), this sophisticated movie tweaks the banal ‘boy meets girl’ genre into an intricate thriller spiced with social allegory and gothic horror. At the Toronto IFF it took the City of Toronto Prize for Best Debut and the Claude Jutra Prize for Best Debut at the Genie Awards.

About the director

Daniel Roby (b. 1970, Montreal) studied film at Montreal´s Concordia University and the University of Southern California. He gained experience as a cameraman (working, for example, with Michel Jetté on Hochelaga, 2000). In 1995 he began shooting short films produced by his own company Zone Film (originally named La Mafia). He worked on the production of the shorts Lila (2001, dir. Robin Aubert), which Quebec´s Association of Film Critics awarded as the best title of the year, and Nos bras meurtris vous tendent le flambeau, the first Canadian fiction to be shot entirely in HD and projected onto 35 mm. In 2001 he directed his first short, Quelques instants de la vie d´une fraise. White Skin is his feature film directorial debut.

Contacts

Telefilm Canada
360, rue Saint-Jacques, Suite 600, H2Y 1P5, Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Tel: +1 514 283 636 3
Fax: +1 514 283 236 5
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.telefilm.gc.ca

Séville Pictures Inc.
, H2Y 1Z5, Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Tel: +1 514 841 1910
Fax: +1 514 841 8030
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.sevillepictures.com

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About the film

Color, 35 mm

Section:	Focus on Canadian Film: Beginning of the 3rd Millennium

Director:	Daniel Roby
Screenplay:	Daniel Roby, Joël Champetier
Dir. of Photography:	Éric Cayla
Music:	Martin Lord, René Dupéré
Editor:	Yvann Thibodeau, François Bégin
Producer:	Daniel Roby
Production:	Zone Film
Cast:	Marianne Farley, Marc Paquet, Frédéric Pierre, Jessica Malka, Julie Le Breton
Contact:	Telefilm Canada, Séville Pictures Inc.

www:	www.lapeaublanche.com

Guests

Brigitte Hubmann

Film Institution Rep.

Jean Claude Mahé

Film Institution Rep.