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MEILLEUR ESPOIR F�MININ
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France
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 100 min.
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MOST PROMISING YOUNG ACTRESS
Fortyish Yvon Rance is and has always been a hairdresser. That is his vocation. He is elegant, his hairpiece fits well and in his native Breton town of Cancale, he reigns over a small court of aging women whose loyalties he has secured with large amounts of silver highlighter. But his true masterpiece, the apple of his eye, is his only daughter Laetitia, whom he has raised on his own for nearly 18 years. He dreams of a spectacular future for Laetitia -- coiffeuse in a bigger city like Laval or Quimper, a hairdresser for the third millennium. Everything seems arranged. Until Yvon discovers that Laetitia has her own ambitions and they don't include dressing hair. In fact Laetitia has secretly been going to movie auditions and she has just been selected for the lead role in a film. Yvon's world crumbles. This is a catastrophe...
When I was a teenager, I had a somewhat complicated relationship with my father, especially when I told him that I wanted to work in the movies. But my film is not -- at least not entirely -- a film about the cinema. The subject is above all about the miscommunication between a father and his son or daughter, during adolescence. It is the father's sudden realization that his little girl is becoming a woman and is rejecting the life that he has prepared for her. -- G�rard Jugnot
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Script: G�rard Jugnot, Isabelle Mergault.
Phot.: Pascal Gennesseaux.
Ed.: Catherine Kelber.
Mus.: Khalil Chahine.
Cast: G�rard Jugnot, B�r�nice Bejo, Antoine Dul�ry, Sabine Haudepin, Mohamed Hicham, Chantal Lauby, Daniel Martin, Hubert Saint-Macary, Didier Flamand, Philippe B�glia, Ticky Holgado, Laurent Lebras, Dora Doll.
Prod.: Olivier Granier, Dominique Farrugia, RF2K, 41, rue des Acacias, 75017 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 58 05 25 20, fax: (33-01) 58 05 05 43.
Sales: UGC International, 2, rue des Quatre-Fils, 75003 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 40 29 89 00, fax: (33-01) 40 29 89 10.
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G�rard Jugnot
Born in Paris in 1951, G�rard Jugnot was a founding member of the Splendid company, a Second City-ish troupe in Paris that spawned many of the comic stars of contemporary French theatre, television and cinema. He acted in and/or wrote over 40 films, including LES BRONZ�S, LES BRONZ�S FONT DU SKI, LE P�RE NO�L EST UNE ORDURE and LE QUART D'HEURE AM�RICAIN. As a director his credits include: LES H�ROS N'ONT PAS FROID AUX OREILLES (1979), PINOT SIMPLE FLIC (1984), SCOUT TOUJOURS (1985), SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE (1988), WONDERFUL TIMES (1991), BLUE HELMET (1993) and FALLAIT PAS (1996). |
