Synopsis
Vincent and Olivier’s love affair is lived in the dark of night.
It’s an intense, rocky relationship: Vincent evades tenderness, just as he does desire, forcing the couple to hunt for a third partner to participate in their sexual games. Olivier – performed by the film’s director – has a background in the theater. He believes in, but is preoccupied by their relationship; he wants to free Vincent from the ghosts haunting him. But Vincent is locked into the past. His father, a pilot, was killed in a plane accident. Vincent’s job is a strange, uncommon one that plunges him deep into contemplation from which no one can make him budge: he deciphers plane disaster recordings.
Vincent’s unconscious repression is so powerful that he hasn’t even recognized the link between his father’s death and his work. It will take the stormy encounter with Olivier for Vincent to obtain his ‘black box.’ Indeed, the two young men come to life through their connection with each other, a connection which shatters the framework of typical love stories.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (23)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Télécip, Les Films Pelléas
- Co-production : ARTE France
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pyramide International
- French distribution : ID Distribution
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Philippe Martin, Jacques Fansten
- Assistant directors : Nicolas Cambois, Sébastien Gardet
- Sound Recordist : François Waledisch
- Screenwriter : Olivier Py
- Director of Photography : Luc Pagès
- Production Manager : Christian Paumier
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Editors : Lise Beaulieu, Béatrice Maleville
- Sound Editor : Thomas Desjonquères
- Production Designer : Pierre-André Weitz
- Costume designer : Pierre-André Weitz
- Sound Mixer : Laurent Dreyer
- Still Photographers : Nathalie Eno, Jean-Claude Lother
- Location Manager : Olivier Guerbois
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Homosexuality
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2000
- French release : 13/12/2000
- Runtime : 1 h 20 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 98.027
- Visa issue date : 17/11/2000
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SR
