Synopsis
In a Parisian Belle Époque smoking room, four men smoke, drink, and each evoke in turn, with humor, violence, or nostalgia, the memory of a woman who left her mark on them. Beyond these amusing portraits of mistresses, a gallery of the men's failures in love emerges.
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Actors (8)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Diligence Films
- Co-production : FullDawa Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : oriGine films
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Julien Rouch
- Screenwriter : Rocco Labbé
- Director of Photography : Jean-François Hensgens
- Music Composers : Laurent Ziliani, Thomas Parisch
- Assistant director : Emmanuelle Fourault
- Editor : Totie Herman
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Luc Audy
- Costume designer : Pierre-Jean Larroque
- Line Producer : Julien Rouch
- Co-producers : Boris Mendza, Gaël Cabouat, David Atrakchi
- Assistant Operator : Prune Brenguier
- Production Manager : Fabrice Touze
- Sound Editor : Nicolas Bourgeois
- Continuity supervisor : Marie Ducret
- Production Designer : Michel Paris
- Sound Mixer : Vincent Arnardi
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Romantic comedy
- Themes : Femininity, Human nature , Misogyny
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2013
- Runtime : 13 min 52 seconds
- Visa number : 134.796
- Visa issue date : 07/08/2013
- Production formats : HD 2K
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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Awards (1)
Grand Off World Independent Short Film Awards (Warsaw)
Poland, 2014
Prize to the Best Costume : Pierre-Jean Larroque
About
An adaptation of "Portraits de maîtresses" (in Le Spleen de Paris) by Charles Baudelaire.
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