Stand-By
Synopsis
Gérard and Hélène have decided to start a new life in Buenos Aires. They are in the airport cafetaria waiting for their plane when Gérard tells Hélène he is leaving her. Hélène is in shock and she doesn’t take it in. Devastated, she tries to reason with him. But he gets away from her, she is unable to hold him back. So she remains at Orly airport, utterly lost, the victim of a whim that has destroyed eight years of life together. Hélène doesn’t ever leave the airport. She wanders in the corridors where one can spend an entire life. Soon she starts prostituting herself with the travellers in transit, awkwardly at first, then more recklessly. Prostitution without denegration while she waits for something else to happen, for the day she will be someone else. She becomes an Orly personality and makes friends with a barman. This is the start of a strange, sleep-walking life for Hélène… Or maybe a journey of initiation.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (20)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Salomé
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Arte France Cinéma, Diaphana, Havas Images
- French distribution : Diaphana
- News agency (France) : Claude Davy & Emmanuel Egretier (ex-DDD Conseil)
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Maurice Bernart
- Adaptation : Yves Sarda, Sandra Cheres
- Screenwriter : Roch Stéphanik
- Director of Photography : Tetsuo Nagata
- Assistant directors : Mathieu Howlett, Christophe Jeauffroy, Jean-Luc Roze
- Editors : Dan Facundo, Roch Stéphanik
- Sound recordists : Jean-Marcel Milan, Florent Ravalec
- Costume designers : Anouschka Debain-Dussaucy, Ève-Marie Arnault
- Assistant Operator : Olivier Fortin
- Production managers : Nathalie Bernart, Marie-Rose Venuti
- Sound editor : Valérie Deloof
- Assistant editors : Nathalie Cvetkovic, Nadia Dalal, Corinne Lesage
- Continuity supervisor : Bénédicte Darblay
- Production Designers : Dominique Douret, Daphné Deboaisne
- Casting : Brigitte Moidon
- Grader : Jean-René Nébot
- Sound Mixer : Vincent Arnardi
- Still Photographer : Jean-Claude Lother
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2000
- French release : 26/07/2000
- Runtime : 1 h 59 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 93.832
- Visa issue date : 07/07/2000
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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News & awards
News (2)
Selections (4)
Stockholm French Film Festival
Sweden, 2008
Hommage à Dominique Blanc (en coll. avec la Cinémathèque suédoise)
Cairo - International Film Festival
Egypt, 2000
Official Competition
Awards (1)
Cairo - International Film Festival
Egypt, 2000
Award for Best Director : Roch Stéphanik
Award for Best Actress : Dominique Blanc
