The Encounter
Synopsis
A filmmaker meets a woman. From time to time, with his video camera, he films snippets of their life. He gradually comes to the realization that he is not simply capturing memories but making a movie. He asks his partner for permission to continue... After a year of shooting, 75 minutes of edited video is ready. He finds himself a good TV screen and films the images with a 35 mm camera. However things are more complicated than they seem : only simplicity of form in video gives powerful cinematic images...
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de l'Astrophore
- Film exports/foreign sales : Celluloid Dreams, Pyramide International
- French distribution : Celluloid Dreams
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Alain Cavalier
- Director of Photography : Alain Cavalier
- Assistant director : Florence Malraux
- Editor : Alain Cavalier
- Sound Recordist : Alain Cavalier
- Producer : Françoise Widhoff
- Sound Mixer : Florent Lavallée
- Participant : Alain Cavalier
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Experimental
- Themes : Love
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 02/10/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 15 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 90.680
- Visa issue date : 21/10/1996
- Approval : No
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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"This, Alain Cavalier's eleventh feature, is a real gem. Don't go see it. It's not for you. It' s for me. What I mean is : it's a film which strikes up such a singular and personal relationship with each individual viewer, that's it's almost incongrous to speak of exchange views with anyone except perhaps the person you love.(...)"
(Jean-Michel Frodon - Le Monde)
