Synopsis
Li Mo left China many years ago but the Nereids have continued to haunt him. Because anyone who has seen these beautiful and fatal nymphs is gently consumed by languor and desire.
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- Executive Producer : Hippocampe Productions
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- Executive Producer : Jordane Oudin
- Screenwriters : Jordane Oudin, Qiaowei Ji
- Director of Photography : Noé Bach
- Music Composer : Arman Méliès
- Assistant directors : Grégoire Manuel, Yu Gu, Baer Xiao
- Editor : Naïla Nkhili
- Sound recordists : Antoine Viallefond, Romain Orsoni, Chang Liu
- Costume designers : Charlotte Pecquenard, Manon Mulot
- Author of original work : Marguerite Yourcenar
- Assistant Operators : Benoît Bouthors, Maxence Lemonnier, Luo Linqing
- Production manager : Bérangère Petitjean
- Sound Editor : Hadrien Bayard
- Continuity supervisors : Brunelle Clergerie, Yuwen Li
- Production Designer : Wen Long
- Make-up Artists : Sylvie Giudicelli, Gwenaëlle Bédouet
- Sound Mixer : Ferdinand Bouchara
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Fairy tale
- Themes : Fantasies, Memories, Immigration
- Production language : Mandarin, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 24 min 50 seconds
- Visa number : 144.680
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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Adapted from L’Homme qui a aimé les néréides, excerpted from Nouvelles Orientales by Marguerite Yourcenar (1938), Éditions Gallimard.
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