Venial Sin... Mortal Sin...
Synopsis
The intimate diary of a 11 year old girl. Céline describes her life living with her grandmother in the country after the war. Amidst the innocent child's play, the village hairdresser, a seductive man of 50, incites her to discover her sexuality.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Play It Again (Les Productions Desmichelle)
- Co-production : TSF
- French distribution : Play It Again (Les Productions Desmichelle)
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Hugues Desmichelle
- Screenwriter : Pomme Meffre
- Director of Photography : Guy Chabanis
- Music Composers : Jean-Pierre Stora, Georges Rabol
- Assistant Director : Nicolas Picard
- Editor : Françoise Berger-Garnault
- Sound Recordist : Pascal Ribier
- Costume designer : Nicole Bize
- Production Manager : Auréle Giraud
- Press Attaché (film) : Barbara Newman
- Continuity supervisor : Véronique Paris
- Production Designer : Gisèle Cavali
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 01/02/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 15 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 84.223
- Visa issue date : 22/11/1994
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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About
"The simplest things are often the hardest to do. For the film we needed to shoot a close-up of a dish filled with rabbits' heads in a steaming wine sauce. A local farmer's wife had stocked all the rabbits' heads that she had managed to find in her freezer for six months. The day we were due to shoot the scene, the young props man, pale and on the verge of collapse, came to see me, unable to cook these bloody heads with their dull eyes. So, taking my inspiration from my grandmother's cookbook, I did it myself. When the dish of decapitated heads arrived on set, the whole crew felt nauseous and gave cries of disgust. I needed all my authority as a director to have the dish lit and filmed lovingly. On top of all this, the canteen served us rabbit stew... Everyone fled and I was left there alone to savour my favourite bit, the rabbits' head."
(Pomme Meffre)
