Chez Léon coiffure
Synopsis
Chez Léon, Coiffure is a film about the presidential election of 2006-2007 through the lives of seven customers of a hairdressing salon in central Paris. Dominique Léon, the hairdresser in the story, is forty-two years old. He performs his craft like a true artist, spends a great deal of time with each of his customers - two people with jobs, a jobseeker, two students, two retired people, and a widow - listens to them, has become over the years a sort of psychologist in the neighbourhood. The people who come to his salon are a lot like him: uncompromising, demanding and passionate. They open up, talk about their everyday lives and worries, comment on French and international political issues, and ask for advice. What they have to say helps show French society at a key moment of its history. The film was shot over a period of four years, using the reflection of the hairdresser's mirror to reflect the daily life of a European capital.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Les Films d'Ici
- Co-production : Forum des images - Centre Audiovisuel de Paris
- French distribution : Promenades Films
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : Serge Lalou, Laura Briand
- Screenwriter : François Lunel
- Director of Photography : François Lunel
- Editors : Cécile Theisen, François Lunel
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Bailly
- Production manager : Cécile Peyre
- Press Attaché (film) : Emilie Imbert
- Sound Editor : Thomas Fourel
- French Distributor : Samuel Chauvin
- Sound Mixer : Antoine Bailly
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2011
- French release : 11/04/2012
- Runtime : 1 h 21 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 121.999
- Visa issue date : 09/12/2010
- Approval :
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
