recto/verso 3 copie 2 - Les Films du Losange

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SYNOPSIS
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NEIGHBOR
WHO HAS A FAVOR TO ASK OF HIS
O BUILD UP HIS COURAGE, A MAN
TO
BIT BETWEEN HIS TEETH AND SETS OUT
CRAWLS OUT OF HIS HOLE, TAKES THE
ACK IN
M THE UNDERGROUND ON HORSEB
RECITE DOSTOEVSKY'S NOTES FRO
SHOW.
IS INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL
FRONT OF 1,700 FARMERS AT THE PAR
PARING TO ATTACK IRAQ.
THE YEAR IS 2003, AND BUSH IS PRE
ws? In any
el, a hoodlum, who kno
former punk rocker, a reb
d. A cinethrough a lot and survive
case, a man who's been
dance, or
ir
the
sense. On a horse. And
matic hero, in a certain
symbosic
mu
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e.
know, the film starts her
l learn
wil
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their battle. That's all we
h.
ug
thro
en
everything he's be
d
an
st
pa
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on
t only
bu
Sim
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ns,
lize
assumptio
We can guess or make
past,
gh
rou
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nothing about his past.
k.
k roc
clues. What music ? Pun
wno
of
t
ou
e
the music provides any
com
s
ha
d. That's all. Simon
live
s
ha
n
ma
s
Thi
re.
therefo
his horse.
here and must break in
-Normandie (Lower
e more. We are in Basse
Quickly, we learn a littl
the Underground.
do Dostoevsky's Notes from
Normandy). He's going to
e... Simon's freedom?
improbable plan will com
On horseback. From this
tional Stud Farms,
Na
the
discover the world of
We
?
ge
ssa
me
's
film
The
al council who is
plications with the region
the inside politics, the com
le. He must carve
is not part of the inner circ
funding the show... Simon
A film within a
lf.
itse
w
d within the sho
an
rld
wo
the
in
he
nic
out his
t this film is playing
pears, we see plainly tha
film. When Patricia ap
sented at the Paris
n play was indeed pre
ricia in Bassewith reality. The equestria
wit
does indeed live h Pat
on
Sim
d
an
w,
Sho
al
Agricultur
Normandie.
a
couple.
/ Mazuy-Reggiani: the
0s, Patricia and Simon
196
the
in
n
bor
h
Bot
n working together for
bee
e
hav
Mazuy-Reggiani
nearly 11 years.
BIO-FILMOGRAPHY
/ During the 1970s.
HEC (a prestigious busiPatricia drops out of the
for Los Angeles, where she
ness school) and leaves
rt
finance her first three sho
to
works as a babysitter
da.
Var
nès
films. There, she meets Ag
school at the age of 15.
g
rdin
boa
ves
lea
Simon
nters and poets and
pai
with
ats
He lives in squ
the punk scene,
oss
acr
drags his saxophone
us
e Bonbon and the Gib
playing in clubs like Ros
t Jungle
hal
Asp
,
ine
zol
Ga
and with groups like
w. He makes an experiand the Kalfon Rock Sho
menti, A L'Ombre de la
Clé
re
Pier
mental film with
rling (Asphalt Jungle's
Da
Canaille Bleue. Ricky
live
screenings of the film
guitarist) accompanies
on guitar.
i.
ux de Vaches, Mona et Mo
/ During the 1980s. Pea
as an
first
g
rkin
wo
tor,
edi
film
Patricia becomes a
en
Demy's Une Chambre
apprentice on Jacques
Toit ni Loi
s
San
s
da'
Var
on
tor
Ville then as edi
,
cting her first feature
(Vagabond), before dire
and
ry
che
trea
story of
Peaux de Vaches, the
family.
deceit within a farming
writes lots of poems. On
Simon has a baby and
r Patrick Grandperret, he
the suggestion of directo
on Simple Simon, a per
g
rkin
wo
spends 7 years
lives
s
nd'
frie
his
of
ge
cka
sonal story about the wre
of the 1970s and 80s.
during the pivotal period
to say, a noble lie.
is a «true» film. Which is
ky
evs
sto
Do
ing
Rid
t
Bu
metal sheets in the air,
ate a storm by waving
The kind where you cre
s are coming-of-age
ors. And the very best film
and politicians play act
e novels.
films, like coming-of-ag
is an apprenticee of these. The whole film
Riding Dostoevsky is on
rse, or the horseho
t
tha
and his conquest of
rse
ho
a
on
n
ma
A
p.
shi
World.
dom, of his place in the
man's conquest of his free
punk rock are pretty
t horseback riding and
And here we realize tha
rney into asceticism.
impossible quest, a jou
much the same thing. An
else, placing you at
g no room for anything
And an addiction, leavin
.
me
ga
se are the rules of the
risk, body and soul. Tho
a, yes. As Renoir
video... But this is cinem
Ten days of shooting, on
giani, one of the
Reg
on
Sim
s report. A film by
imagined it. Not a new
zuy, who, for many,
l losers. And Patricia Ma
French cinema's beautifu
int Cyr. Since she
Sa
of Travolta et Moi and
hasn't kept the promises
t too. Of course.
tha
t
ou
ab
Simon ! The film is
l...
ge
An
ck
Bla
her
t
me
Game of mirrors.
about horses, or
Dostoevsky is not a film
You get the point, Riding
ormandie, or what
iani's retreat to Basse-N
about the Mazuy-Regg
a story of malediction
about those things. It's
have you... Or not only
cinema. Great punk
thic
g less. It's great go
thin
No
n.
ptio
em
red
d
an
cinema!
/ Patrick Eudeline
gle (1976-79)
in the group Asphalt Jun
Writer-musician. Singer
n life has served as the
It's the first time his ow
Grandperret makes the
rick
Pat
basis for his work.
this material.
film Mona et Moi from
s »,
De Force avec d'autre
/ During the 1990s. «
« Travolta et Moi. »
s the attention of the
Peaux de Vaches get
s Patricia to make a
hire
o
Agricultural Ministry, wh
ux
ine genetics, Des Taurea
documentary about bov
of the
one
is
she
xt,
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).
min
et des Vaches (52
to
cted by Pierre Chevalier
happy few directors sele
the subject
on
s
film
on
ficti
of
es
seri
contribute to a
et
. She makes Travolta
of adolescence for Arte
Moi for this series.
er Serge asks him to
Meanwhile, Simon's fath
sonal notes he has
per
on
ed
write a book bas
ieldest son committed suic
accumulated since his
is published
e,
Pos
se
ion
est
Qu
La
de. The book,
by Robert Laffont.
film based on his book,
Simon directs a feature
a
s, which tells the story of
De Force avec d'autre
can live his
he
ore
bef
er
fath
his
l
son who must hea
own life.
at festivals. Simon writes
Patricia and Simon meet
Green, an American
Big
,
ricia
Pat
for
a screenplay
the project can't find
but
,
mystery with Elliott Gould
a producer.
, a TV movie for France 2,
Patricia directs La Finale
N’Djehoya. It's a science
ise
Bla
written by Simon and
r future of 1998 during the
fiction story set in the nea
th
National running the sou
t
Fron
the
World Cup, with
rmandy.
No
to
ves
mo
ple
cou
of France. In 1996, the
, in which Simon plays
Patricia directs Saint Cyr
l priest with a passion for
the role of an evangelica
horses.
/ Riding Dostoevsky
eloping Dostoevsky's
In 2001, Simon starts dev
for a solo theater
nd
rou
erg
Und
the
m
Notes Fro
is approached to
ricia
Pat
e,
tim
project. At the same
of her book Les
tion
pta
direct Marie Seurat's ada
n the project
dow
s
turn
ricia
Pat
.
lep
Corbeaux d'A
ed to her.
pos
pro
s
lay
enp
on the basis of the scre
. So, in
film
the
te
on to wri
The producers hire Sim
adapts
on
Sim
n,
atio
par
pre
cal
addition to his theatri
dence
resi
into
ng
goi
ore
Les Corbeaux d'Alep bef
tional du Pin,
Na
s
ara
L'H
farm
stud
at the national
joins him. They make
where Patricia eventually
Riding Dostoevsky.
Dostoevsky, Patricia and
Since completing Riding
e been preparing a
hav
ani
ggi
Simon Mazuy-Re
ïa Films and Yves
Ma
new equestrian film with
r on Travolta et Moi and
Thomas (the screenwrite
Saint Cyr).
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