COUNTRY
France, Belgium
PRODUCTION
Moana Films, Windy Production, Panache Productions, La Compagnie Cinématographique, France 2 Cinéma
YEAR2023
DURATION119 min
WRITING Vanessa Filho, François Pirot, Vanessa Springora
CINEMATOGRAPHY Guillaume Schiffman
MUSIC
Olivier Coursier, Audrey Ismael
EDITION Marion Monestier, Sophie Reine
CAST Kim Higelin, Jean-Paul Rouve, Laetitia Casta, Elodie Bouchez, Jean Chevalier
DISTRIBUTION Vercine
INTERNATIONAL SALES SND Films
CONTACT info@vercine.org
SYNOPSIS Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen when she meets Gabriel Matzneff, a highly intelligent and manipulative man, he is renowned fifty-year-old writer who seduces the young girl. The teenager becomes the lover and muse of a man celebrated by the cultural and political world. Losing herself in the relationship, she gradually begins to realize how destructive and abnormal the situation is, until she finally sees Gabriel Matzneff for the predator he really is.
Vanessa Filho
French film director, scriptwriter, musician and photographer. She decided to devote herself to cinema thanks to the film
Three Colours: Blue. She began making short films and documentaries. In 2004, she met Simon Buret and Olivier Coursier, with whom she was friends. The two of them decided to form the group AaRON and put her in charge of for their music videos and photographs. In 2006, she directed the video for
U-Turn, a song that became a huge success thanks to the film
Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas. In May 2018, her drama
Gueule d'ange with Marion Cotillard was selected at the Un Certain Regard in Cannes International Film Festival, competing for the Camera d'Or. This work marks an important turning point in the young director's career, as it is her first feature film.
FILMOGRAPHY
Gueule d'ange (feature film, 2018),
Be a Good Girl (short film, 2007),
Primitifs (short film, 2002)
