Synopsis
"I don't paint a being, I paint his passage." (Montaigne) In a remote region, a child and an adult man share a secret, deep loneliness and the loss of a dear one.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : GREC - Groupe de Recherches et d'Essais Cinématographiques
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Alice Beckmann
- Screenwriter : Mathieu Gérault
- Director of Photography : Pierre Cottereau
- Music Composers : Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Sébastien Bach
- Editors : Anne Souriau, Béatrice Wick
- Sound Recordist : Jean Philippe
- Continuity supervisor : Ariane Billy
- Production Designers : Ronan Prodhomme, Baptiste Gérault
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Philosophical tale, Psychological drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2001
- Runtime : 26 min
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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