Headless Chicken

Directed by Franck Landron
Produced by Les Films en Hiver
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 40 min
French release : 27/08/1997
Production year : 1996

Director

Franck
Landron

Actors

Nathalie
Schmidt

Julien
Rassam

Bernard
Ballet

Aure
Atika

Dominique
Duthuit

Sweta
Sizova

Isabelle
Janier

Dominique
Frot

Synopsis

About

"When you work in an improvised manner, the first five minutes are like finding your feet, an actor's warm-up. Then comes the natural, just-right phase, and then it falls off; there's repetition, the subject matter dissolves, and that's not good. Improvisation doesn't mean starting from nothing. You must establish a situation for each role, both a past and something at stake, so that each actor has a position to defend, so as to create tension and conflict. In fact it resembles classic scriptwriting, you have to start by defining the roles, sketching the characters, establishing their situations." (Franck Landron)

Production and distribution

Associate production company : Les Films en Hiver
Co-production : Les Films des Tournelles
French distribution : Colifilms Distribution

Full credits

Screenwriters : Franck Landron, Gilles Cahoreau
Director of Photography : Benoît Delhomme
Sound Recordist : Jérôme Thiault
Press Attaché (film) : Laurent Guyot
Editor : Louise Champfleury (de)
Production Designer : Emmanuelle Duplay
Music Composers : Jean Dindinaud, Nicolas Neidhart

Technical details

Feature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Comedy
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
Production year : 1996
French release : 27/08/1997
Runtime : 1 h 40 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 89.662
Visa issue date : 08/07/1997
Approval : Yes
Production formats : 35mm
Screening format : 35mm
Color type : Color

Festival Selections (1)

Cairo - International Film Festival - 1997 Out of Competition Type : Feature film festival Location : Egypt