The Black Beach
Synopsis
An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos reigns. His wife Sylvie leaves their country for France. She writes about the new democracy struggling to be born back home. His daughter Joyce must hide out in the deserted childhood home in the solitude and infinity of the Black Beach. Several adversaries – the militia of a hazy regime in his native land and the Paris police – wage a strange game of chess in which he is the pawn. Threats abound and he’s haunted by his past, his fears, dead friends. He has three allies: his wife, his daughter, and an old girlfriend from his fighting days. After our hero undergoes a fake execution, he no longer knows what awaits him. Throughout the world, people accept their lot and settle down to lives of unruliness and bloody history. Is there still room in today’s world for a man like our hero who can’t help but have his head in the clouds?
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (6)
- Executive Producer : Gemini Films
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Héritage Films, Madragoa Filmes, Filmograph SA, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
- French distribution : Gemini Films
- News agency (France) : Le Public Système Cinéma
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Paulo Branco
- Screenwriters : Michel Piccoli, Ludivine Clerc
- Director of photography : Sabine Lancelin
- Editor : Catherine Quesemand
- Sound recordists : Brigitte Taillandier, Jean-Claude Laureux, Hans Kunzi
- Costume designers : Catherine Gorne-Achdjian, Malgorzata Gwiazdecka, Isabel Branco
- Foreign producers : Alain Tanner, Lew Rywin
- Author of original work : François Maspero
- Production managers : Gérard Ruey, Sylvie Barthet
- Press Attachés (film) : Sophie Bataille, Bruno Barde
- Production designers : Dorota Ignaczak, Isabel Branco
- Still Photographer : Nathalie Eno
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Portugal, Poland, Switzerland)
- Production year : 2001
- French release : 12/12/2001
- Runtime : 1 h 53 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 99.668
- Visa issue date : 12/12/2001
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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