Synopsis
A film from Les Petits Secrets des grands tableaux collection- Season 1
The Money Changer and His Wife sketches the portrait of sixteenth century Antwerp. In the guise of a simple genre scene, the painter Quentin Metsys reveals a subtle criticism of a world inflamed by the vanity of merchants.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Poissons Volants
- Co-productions : ARTE France, Rmn - Grand Palais, Réseau Canopé, Musée d'Orsay
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Sophie Goupil
- Screenwriters : Élisabeth Couturier, Thomas Cheysson
- Music Composer : Roque Rivas
- Editor : Julien Ngo-Trong
- Sound Recordist : Stéphane Larrat
- Executive Producer : Nawal Tahiri
- Voice : Clémentine Célarié
- Sound Editor : Julien Ngo-Trong
- Production Assistant : Saskia Nilly
- Special Effects : Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka, Gustavo Almenara, Erwann Chabot, Jean-Christophe Levet
- Grader : François Lavignotte
- Sound mixer : Marie-Odile Dupont
- Post-production supervisor : François-Joseph Botbol
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film, Documentary
- Sub-genre : 2D & 3D animation
- Themes : Art, Painting, History
- Production language : French, English, German
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2014
- Runtime : 26 min
- Production formats : Digital creation
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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Thanks to digital animation, details of masterpieces from the history of art come alive to recount the spirit of the age and the upheavals of history: wars, revolutions, economic transformations, scientific discoveries, beliefs, and flow of ideas.
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