Description - Diffusions - Playing - Synopsis - Note of intention - Bonus - Details - Team

Descriptif : A boy, a girl, a misunderstanding, a good deal of hesitation, and a story that gently follows its course.

Diffusions :

To come :
The movie will be ready in July 2006.

Past :
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Playing :

The same players play again!
This short movie is about a boy and a girl, that have been through quite a lot of things together, that have loved each others and that, after a good deal of hesitation, broke up and then come back to each other, gently. To play the role in a few days, without rehearsals, a relationship that rich between two human beings having been through so many things together, we had an advantage : Beryl and I knew each other. We had been playing together since May 2005 in a short theater play in parisian bars : "La première enquête de l'Histoire". Aleksander, the director, had seen the play ;-)

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Synopsis (by the director) :

This film explores one of the ways in which an individual can become distanced from his fundamental needs and desires.

The daily rhythm of the two protagonists is glimpsed through a dreary cityscape, and gives way to a mystical sense of possession as the girl-protagonist is driven almost unconsciously to visit her boyfriend unannounced, in spite of having given up this relationship long ago.

That it is a search for warmth and understanding that drives her is not at first apparent, as she believes herself to be pregnant, and being troubled by this, asks her boyfriend what he thinks that they should do now. But failing to look at the situation with a perceptive eye, he fears that this new event will drive his girlfriend even further away. He therefore withdraws, afraid of the forces seemingly beyond his control that affect his life.

Alone, in a calmer state of mind, he then manages to empathize with her emotions, and sees a glimpse of the longing that she has tried to express.

As he finds her alone in her apartment, they reach a point in which there is nothing to be said and nothing to be done beyond accepting the other person's state of being, - to find that even though certain experiences remain incomprehensible, many painful situations are also an opportunity to show tenderness.
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Director's note of intention :

Alienation in the modern society is an issue that recent events have brought to the forefront of attention. With this film I have wanted to show the importance of genuine interest in and empathy with others. I have chosen to construct a narrative that builds upon emotions from the daily life, and that demonstrates this message through a form of visual conjecture in which the memory of certain experiences come together to form a whole that is, like one's sense of the past, at the same time distant and very near.

Being the first project that I have directed in France, it has been particularly interesting to learn how no matter where one finds oneself in the world, the human substance of a story can take form and relate to an interpretation of the external environment. It has been a pleasure to work in France and with a French crew.
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Bonus :

Some "making-of" photos here !
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Details :

The norvegian way!
The director of the movie, the director of the photography and the sound ingenieur were Norvegian! (except one day with a English sound ingenior). Then were the make up girl, Beryl and I for the French side of the team. And when the shooting is about to start and that everything you can hear is in Norvegian : it's something! But in the end, we happened to learn basinc things in Norvegian and Aleksander, the Director, was very understandable inn French. Anyway, it was a  great deal of fun, such a team!
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Team :

With :
Béryl COUTAT
Julien DAILLERE

Technical team :
Screenplay / Direction / Cut - Aleksander SOLUM
Director of photography : Tore HOLBERG
Sound ingenieurs : Rick LIMENTANI and Mette LILLEBY
Make up - Leïla CAUDRILLIER
Set photographer - Everyone! Leïla (who likes photo) and Béryl were often at work for it!
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