Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2004 / Mister V. / France 2003
Tautly-told tale of a man fascinated by the eponymous wild stallion who killed his brother.
A powerful colt of a movie by second-time director Emilie Deleuze (whose Peau neuve played Cannes´ Directors´ Fortnight in ´99). Mister V. is an unsentimental, tautly told tale of a man fascinated by the eponymous wild stallion who killed his brother. When trainer Luigi Lucatelli (Patrick Catalifo) buys the high-strung, unbroken Mister V. at auction, Luigi´s brother, Lucas (Mathieu Demy), is perpelexed by the purchase - until he realizes Luigi is working am insurance scam bankrolled by a smarmy Belgian breeder (Jean-Louis Richard). Then evil-tempered Mister V. kicks Luigi in the head, killing him. Deleuze´s clear-eyed investigation of the awkward bond between man and animal eschews anthropomorphism while still repectfully conveying an animale´s intelligence and emotional range.
Leslie Felperin
90 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Émilie Deleuze
/ Screenplay Émilie Deleuze, Laurent Guyot
/ Dir. of Photography Jean-Phillipe Bouyer
/ Music Rodolphe Burger
/ Editor Mathilde Muyard
/ Producer Pauline Duhault
/ Production Élia Films, koprodukce / co-production: Salomé
/ Cast Mathieu Demy, Aure Atika, Patrick Catalifo, Fabien Lucciarini
/ Contact Élia Films, Arsan
Élia Films
9 rue Ganneron, 75018, Paris
France
Phone: +33 1 452 275 15
Fax: +33 1 452 275 61
E-mail: [email protected]
Arsan
3 rue de la Bruyere, 750 09, Paris
France
Phone: +33 1 428 156 54
Fax: +33 1 428 157 95
E-mail: [email protected]
Aure Atika
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