The Wind of the Night
Synopsis
Hélène: "When we met and you said you loved me, I thought, 'This guy's nuts.' I couldn't believe it. What's he up to? But then I realized I wanted it, and I thought, 'Even if it's for your money, baby, what the hell's the difference, you can't take it with you.' So I thought, 'May as well blow it all!' I'm not talking money, here, I'm talking about me. And now you're the one who's backing off. . . ."
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Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Why Not Productions
- Co-production : Les Films Alain Sarde
- Foreign production companies : Classic S.R.L., Vega Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Pascal Caucheteux
- Adaptation : Philippe Garrel, Marc Cholodenko, Xavier Beauvois, Arlette Langmann
- Director of photography : Caroline Champetier
- Music Composer : John Cale
- Editor : Françoise Collin
- Sound Recordist : René Levert
- Costume designer : Élisabeth Tavernier
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Chabot
- Production Designers : Mathieu Menut, Giacomo Macchi, Gino Diomaiuto, Laurent Baude
- Sales Agent : Patrick Binet
- Still Photographer : Marion Stalens
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Germany, Switzerland, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Germany, Switzerland, France)
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Selections (9)
Hong Kong French Film Festival
Hong Kong, 1999
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About
"Garrel taught me that simplicity could pay off. His principle is to empty everything, to eliminate anything that might be a hindrance on the set. He achieves a terrific sparseness. No one shoots everyday scenes like him, banal situations like a father and son in a café. His style is inimitable. He only needs one take per shot. And there aren't really any rehearsals, he gives us free rein. On the other hand, he shoots in chronological order, respecting the film's development to the letter. Which is pretty rare. For an actor, it's good because the character develops naturally. And dialog can be adapted as a function of that development."
(Xavier Beauvois, Actor, interviewed by Jacques Morice in "Télérama," March 3, 1999)
