Bad Company
Synopsis
Delphine is fifteen. Her life is completely empty. And then, suddenly, it seems completely full: she has a lover (Laurent), a friend (Olivia) and everything that goes with them—sex, music, the impression of no longer being alone, of constantly moving ahead, of existing. But hanging out with this "bad crowd" leads Delphine into the throes of passion as she discovers that, at age fifteen, she'll do anything for love
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (17)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producers : Les Films Alain Sarde, Pan-Européenne (Pan Cinéma)
- Co-production : M6 Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Wild Bunch Distribution
- News agency (France) : Claude Davy & Emmanuel Egretier (ex-DDD Conseil)
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producers : Philippe Godeau, Alain Sarde
- Screenwriters : Alain Layrac, Jean-Pierre Améris
- Director of Photography : Yves Vandermeeren
- Assistant Director : Euric Allaire
- Editor : Martine Giordano
- Sound recordists : Georges Prat, Olivier Dô Hûu
- Costume designer : Mic Cheminal
- Sound Assistant : Stéphane Albinet
- Assistant Operators : Séverine Barde, Michel Monnaie
- Production Manager : Jean-Jacques Albert
- Press Attaché (film) : Claude Davy
- Sound editor : Muriel Moreau
- Continuity supervisor : Zoé Zurstrassen
- Casting : Jeanne Biras
- Production Designer : Jean-Pierre Clech
- Location Manager : François Menny
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Adolescence
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 20/10/1999
- Runtime : 1 h 38 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 94.200
- Visa issue date : 28/09/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
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News & awards
Selections (7)
BFI London Film Festival
Great Britain, 2000
Films selected
Melbourne International Film Festival
Australia, 2000
French films selected
Munich - International Film Festival
Germany, 2000
Films selected
Delegations (1)
About
Right from the start, I decided to handle this tale not as a human interest story but as an unusual love story, far from sociological considerations. My style tends to be realistic, but I seek to reveal the way my characters shatter the reality that oppresses them. The film is an evil fairy tale. It attempts to incorporate, in a very modern and contemporary context, the eternal themes associated with dark Romanticism. I wanted to depict the passion experienced by characters between the ages of 15 and 17, a period when everything is intensified, when teenagers display a taste for the absolute and a thirst for the eternal. The theme that runs throughout my films is the spirit of adolescence. I was able to make this film not as an adult looking back on that period but as someone on an equal footing with my characters and actors.
Jean-Pierre Améris – Director, excerpt from the press folder
