Synopsis
To preserve the memory of bowling game, some players of a region in France, the Montreuillois, recreate a tournament on an old abandonned playground. Memory of a practice and a forgotten time wakes up then. In the games, to allow looser teams to keep on playing, an alternative competition is organized : the « Unfortunates ». A context as a pretext for the observation and study of a community made by some characters of the north of France, with their story tellings and their daily life around a game which gather people. A serie of inhabitants portraits.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : red shoes | SOME SHOES
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producer : Olga Rozenblum
- Director of Photography : Jean-Baptiste Delahaye
- Assistant Director : Grégoire Motte-Saintagnan
- Editors : Annie Pierre, Éléonore Saintagnan
- Sound Recordist : Guillaume Serpereau
- Executive Producer : Olga Rozenblum
- Sound Mixer : Mikaël Kandelman
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Portrait
- Themes : Traditions, Monde rural, Leisure
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2012
- Runtime : 33 min 1 seconds
- Visa number : 135.919
- Visa issue date : 16/06/2015
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
Resources
Website(1)
redshoes.fr/les-malchanceux/
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