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Dir.: Christine Laurent Christine Laurent has had multiple careers: as a set and costume designer for stage and opera, as a scriptwriter, as a stage director and as an author and film director. In the theatre and in opera she worked for, among others, Michel Vitold, Patrice Chéreau, René Allio, Roland Petit and Paul Vecchiali; at the Comédie-Française, the Théâtre National de Strasbourg, the Opéra de Nantes, the Cologne Opera, the Palais de Chaillot, the Bochum Schauspielhaus and the Teatro da Cornucopia of Lisbon. She wrote or co-wrote the scripts of Jacques Rivette's LA BANDE DES QUATRE (1987), LA BELLE NOISEUSE (1990), JEANNE LA PUCELLE (1994) and HAUT, BAS, FRAGILE (1995). She wrote and directed: ALICE CONSTANT (1977), VERTIGES (1985) and EDEN MISERIA (1989). |
TRANSATLANTIQUE (CD) Dir.: Christine Laurent; Script: Christine Laurent, Philippe Arnaud, André Téchiné; Phot.: Jeanne Lapoirie; Ed.: Rodolfo Wedeles; Mus.: Jorge Arriagada; Cast: Laurence Côte, Joaquin Olarreaga, Hector Spinelli, Monique Mélinand, Julio Calcagno, José Olivera, Evelyne Didi, Luis Miguel Cintra, Osvalda Fattoruso, Nicolas Mora, Mariana Ingold; Prod.: Paulo Branco, Gemini Films, 73, rue Saint-Denis, Paris (France), tél.: 40 39 03 75, fax: 42 33 12 13 / Madragoa Filmes; Sales: Gemini Films . On another continent in a city far away. Montevideo, Uruguay. One heard a lot about it when the country was ruled by dictators. Now it's largely forgotten. Laura, a singer, comes to Montevideo for the first time in her life. She's to meet Colossus, her boyfriend. But he's not there. She waits; in vain. She begins looking for him. What could have happened? The city begins to work its magic. Laura is "called" in many directions and by many voices. In Montevideo the air is combustible. Laura begins asking questions but the answers she gets are useless, irrelevant or self-serving. Intimidation, seduction, deceit. Laura gets to know three men: O'Nety, Ñato and Aquilino. Ñato resembles Colossus and she begins to fall in love with him. She is wary with Aquilino and O'Nety. Especially the latter. What could he really want with his idea of having her sing at the Teatro Solis? Whenever Laura is on the verge of mourning the death of her love, her singing revives it... |
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