Archive of films Parting Shot / Pas douce
Switzerland / France
2007, 83 min
Section:
Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!
Year: 2007
After her utterly convincing turn as an obsessive fan in Backstage, French actress Isild Le Besco creates another creepy portrait of monomania in Parting Shot. Impressive first feature by Basel-born helmer Jeanne Waltz is part psychological study, part personal epiphany as a bungled suicide attempt forces a young woman to connect more with society around her.
Synopsis
After her utterly convincing turn as an obsessive fan in Backstage, French actress Isild Le Besco creates another creepy portrait of monomania in Parting Shot. Impressive first feature by Basel-born helmer Jeanne Waltz is part psychological study, part personal epiphany as a bungled suicide attempt forces a young woman to connect more with society around her. Writer-director Waltz, with a decade of shorts behind her, keeps the 83-minute pic taut throughout, with hardly a wasted scene. Small changes in emotional calibration are beautifully handled, and the atmosphere of a small mountain town, remote from the wider world, is captured via unfussy helming.
Contacts
Pyramide International
32 rue de l’Echiquier, 750 10, Paris
France
Tel: +33 142 960 220
Fax: +33 140 200 551
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.pyramidefilms.com
Prince Film SA
Rue des Maraichers 8, CH-1205, Geneva
Switzerland
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Color, 35 mm
Section: | Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! |
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Director: | Jeanne Waltz |
Screenplay: | Jeanne Waltz |
Dir. of Photography: | Hélène Louvart |
Music: | Cyril Ximenes |
Editor: | Eric Renault |
Producer: | Pierre-Alain Meier, Didier Haudepin |
Production: | Prince Film SA |
Cast: | Isild Le Besco, Steven de Almeida, Lio, Yves Verhoeven |
Contact: | Pyramide International, Prince Film SA |
www: | www.pasdouce-lefilm.com |
Guests
Francine Brücher
Jeanne Waltz
Film Director