Milestones

A Feature film of

Alain Beigel

Produced by

Gaumont, Magouric Productions

Production year1999

French release21/04/1999

Runtime1 h 43 min

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Five guys and a girl are driving to the sea. It' s essential they get ther. But one of them is dead. And that's why it's essential.

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Alain Beigel
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Executive Producers : Gaumont, Magouric Productions

Co-production : M6 Films

Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont

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Executive Producers : Laurent Bénégui, Sidonie Dumas

Adaptation : Jean-Luc Gaget, Alain Beigel

Screenwriter : Jean-Luc Gaget

Director of Photography : Luc Pagès

Music Composers : Laurent Coq, Benjamin Raffaelli

Editor : Florence Bon

Sound Recordist : Frédéric De Ravignan

Costume designer : Jacqueline Bouchard

Line Producer : Jean-Luc Gaget

Assistant Operator : Elin Kirschfink

Production Manager : Pascal Lahmani

Press Attaché (film) : Laurence Granec

Production Designer : Patrick Horel

Still Photographer : Séverine Brigeot

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Type : Feature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Drama
Themes : Death, Travel
Production language : French
Original French-language productions : Unspecified

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Selections (3)

Hong Kong French Film Festival
Hong Kong, 1999
Films selected
Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF)
Great Britain, 1999
Rosebud
French Film Festival in Yokohama
Japan, 1999
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French Film Festival in Yokohama
Japan, 1999
Actor : Alain Beigel

About

"'Milestones' sprang from my distress and soul-searching following a sudden death. How can a group of young guys survive the vacuum that's been created? How is death treated in Western Europe? I've traveled a bit, and I've been amazed to discover mourning rites and customs that are totally different from ours. So I wanted to challenge our vision of things, of the moral rule which exists in the West, beyond anybody's individual beliefs. In the film, the guys are face-to-face with death over a 48-hour period, forced to stick with the remains of their buddy. They wind up evolving both geographically—since they decide to honor their friend's memory by taking the body to Italy—and personally, through the intimate situation they find themselves in. What interests me is the way in which such situations can be transcended."

(Alain Beigel, Director, excerpt from an interview published in "Unifrance Film Newsletter," No. 19)