The Cry of Silk
Synopsis
Paris 1914. A young woman, Marie Benjamin is found lying on the floor in a large department store clutching a remnant of red silk convulsively against her. Arrested and transferred to the prison infirmary she is questioned at lenght by psychiatrist Gabriel de Villemer. In discovering the strange and sensual rapport this young illiterate seamstress has with silk, Gabriel can no longer hide his own inner turmoil. He himself is smitten by the delicate pleasures such fabrics can offer... Thus two beings originally worlds apart are drawn together.
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Director (1)
Actors (34)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Mimosa Production
- Co-productions : Ingrid Productions, Scarabée Films, La Sept Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : T&C Film AG, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse, Compagnie Méditerranéenne de Cinéma (CMC)
- Film exports/foreign sales : France tv distribution
- French distribution : Pierre Grise Distribution
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Sylvain Bursztejn
- Screenwriters : Yvon Marciano, Jean-Francois Goyet
- Director of Photography : William Lubtchansky
- Music Composer : Alexandre Desplat
- Assistant directors : Gilles Bannier, Alexandre Nazarian, Gabrièle Roux
- Editor : Catherine Quesemand
- Sound Recordist : Laurent Barbey
- Costume designers : Dominique Borg, Claire Risterucci
- Co-producer : Marcel Hoehn
- Sound Assistant : Martin Stricker
- Assistant Operators : Irina Lubtchansky, Mikaël Lubtchansky
- Production Manager : Daniel Delume
- Press Attaché (film) : Florence Bory
- Sound Editor : Pierre Choukroun
- Assistant editors : Saskia Berthod, Anne-Marguerite Monory
- Continuity supervisor : Chloé Perelman
- Production Designer : Katia Wyszkop
- Casting : Paula Chevallet
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Rousseau
- Still Photographer : Nathalie Eno
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Switzerland, Belgium)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 28/08/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 79.202
- Visa issue date : 01/08/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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Selections (4)
Cairo - International Film Festival
Egypt, 1996
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About
"For me, my heroine, Marie Benjamin, is neither ill nor crazy. She simply has a particular longing (a fetishist love for silk) which she seeks to assuage at all costs, even if, in doing so, she is sent to prison or to the asylum. For her, this craving is a driving force, not a burden. It's what keeps her alive and what enables her to struggle against all the odds. Like her, we all have secret desires which we must assuage if we want to stay alive, and I believe we owe it to ourselves to come to know such longings so that we may live our lives in harmony with them."
(Yvon Marciano)
