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MAGMA
A film by Pierre Vinour
2010 l French l Scope l Dolby SRD l 95 minutes
SYNOPSIS
During a conference at a remote hotel situated in the heart of Auvergne's volcano country, Paul Neville, a
parisian telesurveillance engineer, agoraphobic, gets involved in an affair with a mysterious woman staying
in the next room. His encounter with this woman allows him to push aside his fear of open spaces and
invites her to rendezvous in the countryside. But on the day that the lovers decide to leave everything
behind them and live their newfound passion for each other, the young woman disappears. On his return
to Paris, his time is shared between his love of his family —Christie, his wife and their daughter, Audrey —,
and a police investigation into the disappearance.
Paul is troubled and doesn't understand what is happening. He decides, therefore, to carry out his own
enquiry which turns into more of a quest of his own existence. He finds himself back in his natal region, not
far from the volcanos of Auvergne.
DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY
Pierre Vinour lives and works in Paris and on the Millevaches Highlands, France. He is a director,
screenwriter and co-founder of Les Enragés film production company. Also musician, he directed
experimental films in the 80’s and then went on to study the scriptwriting at the University of Paris I
Sorbonne where he received a degree. For two years following, he worked on a thesis devoted to the
economic role of the script. Beginning in 1985, and for the next 15 years, he taught writing at different
institutions of higher learning and private and public schools including France’s famed film school La Fémis.
Pierre Vinour’s films have attracted a lot of attention at various international film festivals. These films
were broadcast both nationally and on the international market and some won prizes such as
Millevaches[expérience], nominated at the French César for Best Short Film. Pierre Vinour is one of the new
voices that count in French cinema today. With a background in music, experimental filmmaking and
scriptwriting, Pierre has developed a refreshing, untamed vision of cinema. With his first feature film,
Supernova [Experience #1] in competition at Fantasporto, Bifff, Pifan International Film Festivals… and his
second one, Magma (Pusan Première in compétition in 2009), Pierre has crafted his own brand of fiction,
one where he captures essential elements of nature interacting with man’s innermost depths.
The samples of his work will testify of his sensitive, organic visual approach, in the service of clear, direct
storytelling.
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MAQUIS - 2011
With CNC and Region Limousin dev. support.
MAGMA - 2010
co-written by Pascal MIESZALA
Starring Mehdi NEBBOU, Natacha REGNIER, Arly JOVER
Auvergne, Limousin Regions & CinéCinéma supports – completed July 2009
Festivals World Premiere at Pusan Int. Film Fest (SOUTH-KOREA) – Singapore Int. Film Fest (SINGAPORE)…
SUPERNOVA [EXPERIMENT #1] - 2003
co-written by Pascal MIESZALA
Starring Philippe NAHON, Catherine WILKENING, Clément SIBONY
CNC (Avance sur recettes après réalisation), Conseil Régional du Limousin, Conseil Général de la Corrèze
Supports. French theatre released October 2003. Festivals Lama, Lyon (New Génération), «_Jamais trop
tard pour bien voir_» in Paris & Normandie, BIFFF in Bruxelles (BELGIUM), PIFAN in Seoul (SOUTH-KOREA),
Fantasporto (PORTUGAL)…
Broadcast CinéCinéma
ACTORS BIOGRAPHIES
Mehdi NEBBOU
Born in France of a German mother and an Algerian father, he left home to study in the Cinema Academy in
Berlin. Through helping a fellow student with his casting, he ventured into acting in the film, My Sweet
Home by Filipos Tsitos . In 2001 this was to be the only German film competing in the Berlin Festival.
Consequently, it received a lot of attention in the national Press.
In 2004, the director Samir Nasr was to offer him his first role in Presumed Guilty, winner of the best film
category in the Film Festival of San Francisco. His career took off in Germany in 2005 thanks to Schläfer,
which was celebrated by the critics and considered as one of the pioneers of “The German New Wave”. It
had been selected officially by the Cannes Festival in 2005 in the Un certain regard category, when Steven
Spielberg decided to cast him in Munich as Ali Hassan Salameh the presumed brain behind Black
September. That same year, he played in Fay Grim by Hal Hatley next to Jeff Goldblum. Then, he played in
The Mob by Frédéric Schoedoerffer with Benoît Magimel.
In 2006, he meets Jacques Maillot who offers him the part of José Lazaga in Blood Ties. That year, he was
awarded the Prize for Best Promising actor in Germany thanks to Teresas Zimmer by Constanze Knoche.
The comedy Cash by Eric Bernard follows, in which he plays next to Jean Reno et Jean Dujardin. He also
appears in the second season of Engrenages on Canal+. In the last film by Ridley Scott, he is an ex spy next
to Leonardo Dicaprio and Russell Crowe.
Fimographie sélective
- 2010 : Magma, by Pierre Vinour
- 2008 : Secret Défense, de Philippe Haïm
- 2008 : Body of Lies, de Ridley Scott
- 2008 : Engrenages (Spirals), Saison II de Philippe Venault et Philippe Triboit
- 2008 : Ca$h, d'Eric Besnard
- 2008 : Les Liens du sang (Rivals), de Jacques Maillot
- 2007 : Truands, de Frédéric Schoendoerffer
- 2006 : Teresas Zimmer, de Constanze Knoche
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- 2006 : Fay Grim, d'Hal Hartley
- 2005 : Munich, de Steven Spielberg
- 2005 : Schläfer, de Benjamin Heisenberg (Un certain Regard – Cannes 2005)
- 2004 : Folgeschäden (Présumé coupable), de Samir Nasr
Natacha RÉGNIER
Natacha Régnier, a Belgian actress living in Paris, arrived in the French capital at the end of her studies to
start acting. There, she meets Pascal Bonitzer with whom she filmed his second long feature Encore in
1996.
After a few short films she is Marie in Eric Zonka’s La vie rêvée des ange. Thanks to her performance, she is
the winner of The Prix d’interprètation féminine at the Cannes Festival and Elodie Boucher’s co-recipient of
the Best European Actress of the Year. In 1999, the award for the Best New Actress would really launch her
career, and from then on she is kept busy with films and various projects.
Demanding of herself, she is as comfortable with cinema as with television and she is all to ready to take on
new experiments (in the theatre and musical worlds amongst others) and also to alternate between first
time and experienced producers. She has worked with the likes of François Ozon, Chantal Ackerman, Lucas
Belvaux, Eugène Green, Jane Birkin or Emmanuel Bourdieu.
Filmographie sélective
- 2010 : Magma, by Pierre Vinour
- 2008 : Intrusions, by Emmanuel Bourdieu
- 2007 : Boxes by Jane Birkin
- 2006 : Les Amitiés maléfiques, by Emmanuel Bourdieu
- 2006 : La Raison du plus faible, by Lucas Belvaux
- 2006 : Gaspard le bandit (TV) by Benoît Jacquot
- 2004 : Le Pont des arts by Eugène Green
- 2004 : Ne fais pas ça !, by Luc Bondy
- 2004 : Demain on déménage, by Chantal Akerman
- 2003 : Vert paradis, by Emmanuel Bourdieu
- 2001 : Comment j'ai tué mon père, by Anne Fontaine
- 1999 : Les Amants criminels, by François Ozon
- 1998 : La Vie rêvée des anges, by Erick Zonca
Arly JOVER
Arly Jover was born in Melilla in Spain. She started Ballet classes at the age of 8 and left for New York at the
age of 15 to study with “The school of American Ballet”. Later on she joined Martha Graham’s prestigious
Dancing School. However, her dream of a ballet career was dashed by an accident and her love for the
cinema guided her to become an actress. She made her debut next to Wesley Snipes in Blade by Steve
Norrington and also appears in independent films such as The young Unknowns by Catherine Jelski and Fish
in a Barrel by Kent Dalian.
In 2003, she settled in France to pursue her European career. She later wins the principal female role
opposite Jean Réno in The Empire of the Wolves by Chris Nahon. She also appeared in Someone else’s child
by Virginie Wagon produced by Arte as well as in Two Worlds by Daniel Cohen. In 2008, she is in the
Brothers Larrieu’s cast for Voyage aux Pyrénées which was selected at the Quinzaine des réalisaterus.
Recently she was in Cédric Kahn’s latest film Regrets.
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Filmographie sélective
- 2010 : Magma, by Pierre Vinour
- 2009 : Les Regrets (Regrets), by Cedric Kahn
- 2008 : Le Voyage aux pyrénées, by Jean-Marie & Arnaud Larrieu
- 2007 : Les Deux mondes, by Daniel Cohen
- 2006 : L'Enfant d'une autre by Virginie Wagon
- 2006 : Madame Irma, by Didier Bourdon
- 2005 : L’Empire des loups, by Chris Nahon
- 2003 : April Shower, by Tricia Dolan
- 2001 : Fish in a barrel, by Kent Dalian
- 1998 : Blade, by Steve Norrigton
PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHY
Established in 1998 and managed by Pierre Vinour and, since 2003, Aurélie Bordier, LES ENRAGÉS is a
production company that proposes a singular point of view on the world and which work method is
demanding, modern and innovative. The collaboration between the producers and their artistic, technical
and financial partners is enhanced by the desire for each film to find its own form and its own public. LES
ENRAGÉS produces shorts and features as well as multimedia and experimental works. When the company
began, it was devoted to short film production such as Millevaches [Expérience] which won two Lutins,
several festival prizes and a César nomination in 2002.
In 2003 was released the first feature film directed and produced by Pierre Vinour, Supernova
[Expérience#1], starring Philippe Nahon.
In 2003, producer Aurélie Bordier joined Vinour. Together they produced the first Catherine Wilkening,
Valentin Baillet, Valérie Boucher and Pascal Mieszala shorts films as well as Vinour’s video installation
Éléments, which was shown in 2006 at the Clermont-Ferrand art museum, then later in Paris at « Espace
Paul Ricard » under the aegis of the Festival Némo.
Following her law studies at the Bordeaux IV University, Aurélie Bordier’s professional trajectory has been
linked to the film business for more than 16 years. In 1993 she began running a two-screen Art house film
theater and then ran, for Veo company, promotional operations tied to films distributed by Pathé, Warner
and Bac Films, in southwestern France. Alongside that she was the coordinator and teacher of cinema
technology at the training program «Management and Animation of Art House Theaters» in Limoges. From
1999 to 2002, she was the general delegate for the Association des Cinémas de Proximité d’Aquitaine,
representing nearly 75 Art house cinemas and for which she organized and programmed the Quinzaine du
Cinéma Européen Festival.
With Les Enragés, Aurélie Bordier produced a feature film, several short films and a multimedia installation
so far. She is in charge of production and development of feature films and looking for new projects. She is
a member of the EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs in 2005) producers’ network.
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PRODUCTION FILMOGRAPHY
In production
UN Français (feature in dev.)
Dir Valérie BOUCHER
MAQUIS (feature in dev.)
With CNC and Region Limousin dev. support.
DANS LA PISCINE (short)
Dir Frédy BUSSO Writers Valérie BOUCHER & Frédy BUSSO
Poitou-Charentes Region support
CHAIR DISPARUE (short)
Dir. Writ. Pascal MIESZALA
Centre Region support, CNC, TV Tours, Procirep-Angoa
Catalogue
MAGMA - 2009
Dir Pierre VINOUR Writers Pierre VINOUR & Pascal MIESZALA
Starring Mehdi NEBBOU, Natacha RÉGNIER, Arly JOVER, Aurélien RECOING
With Auvergne Region, Limousin Region & CinéCinéma supports
Festivals World Premiere at PIFF in South-Korea – October 2009, Singapore Int. Film Fest…
SUPERNOVA [EXPERIMENT #1] - 2003
Dir. Pierre VINOUR
Starring Philippe NAHON, Catherine WILKENING, Clément SIBONY
With CNC (Avance sur recettes après réalisation), Conseil Régional du Limousin, Conseil Général de la
Corrèze
French theatre released October 2003.
Festivals Lama, Lyon (New Génération), «_Jamais trop tard pour bien voir_» in Paris
& Normandie, BIFFF in Bruxelles (BELGIUM), PIFAN in Seoul ( SOUTH-KOREA), Fantasporto (PORTUGAL)…
Broadcast CinéCinéma
VIDEO INSTALLATION
ELEMENTS - 2006
Dir. Pierre VINOUR
In co-production with ARCADI Ile de France Region support, Conseil Régional du Limousin & Conseil Général
de la Corrèze supports
Festivals Clermont-Ferrand, Némo in Paris, Montpellier, Toulouse…
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Paul Neville l Mehdi NEBBOU
Christie Neville l Natacha RÉGNIER
Ainhoa Javier / La voisine l Arly JOVER
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Commissaire Darcy l Aurélien RECOING
Audrey Neville l Lise TIERSEN
Mère Neville l Brigitte BARILLEY
Mérieux l Damien TARANTO
Piquemal l Bénédicte VANDERREYDT
Corrado l Thierry DER'VEN
Père Neville l Jean-François BOURINET
Paul Neville jeune l Bastien COUVIDAT
Lucas Neville l Nathanaël COUVIDAT
Lieutenant l Tamara CAUZOT
A film written by Pierre VINOUR & Pascal MIESZALA
directed by Pierre VINOUR
produced by Pierre VINOUR & Aurélie BORDIER
director of photography l Eric WEBER
editing l Emmanuel JAMBU
original music l ZONE LIBRE (Serge TEYSSOT-GAY, Marc SENS, Cyril BILBEAUD)
sound , sound editor & sound design l Richard ESCOLA & Côme JALIBERT (Talk Over)
production design l Nelly NAHON & Jérôme FEVE
costumes l Delphine BIRARELLI
director assistant l Maxime BAILLET
make-up l Sophie DAUCHEZ
production manager l Isabelle HARNIST
a production by LES ENRAGÉS
with CINÉCINÉMA participation
CONSEIL RÉGIONAL D'AUVERGNE
CONSEIL RÉGIONAL DU LIMOUSIN
And CNC supports.
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