Synopsis
Marie is fifty and works in a supermarket. She is lonely. Robert is fifty and works as guard in a parking lot. He is lonely. One evening Marie encounters Robert in front of a distributor of cassettes of a videoclub. They exchange a few words and go their ways. We see them then again confronted with their solitude. Will they meet again? Speak to each other again? For longer?
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (4)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : 31 Juin Films
- Co-production : Les Films du Requin
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producers : Emmanuel Barraux, Agnès Vallée
- Screenwriter : Ji-Hong Joo
- Director of photography : Gertrude Baillot
- Music Composer : Thomas Girardin
- Editor : Sébastien De Sainte Croix
- Sound recordists : Benjamin Laurent, Anne Maisonhaute
- Co-producer : Jean Des Forêts
- Production Designer : Tiphaine Selosse
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Encounters, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2004
- Runtime : 15 min 22 seconds
- Visa number : 107.745
- Visa issue date : 05/03/2004
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
- Rating restrictions : None
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