Directed by:
Claude MillerCinematography:
Bruno NuyttenComposer:
Alain JomyCast:
Patrick Dewaere, Patrick Bouchitey, Christine Pascal, Claude Piéplu, Michel Blanc, Nathan Miller, Marc Chapiteau, Michel SuchPlots(1)
To mark the 60th anniversary of the film monthly Positif, our festival programme will also include the feature film debut by Claude Miller (1942–2012). The following is an excerpt from a review written for Positif in the year of the film’s release (1975) by Fréderic Vitoux, today a member of the French Academy: “The film was inspired by a prickly memory from the director’s adolescence. The story is set in a summer camp at the beginning of the 1960s (when he was 18) and describes the tension between two camp leaders, Marc (Patrick Dewaere), a macho anti-intellectual with fascist leanings, and the more docile, artistically disposed Philippe (Patrick Bouchitey). When one day Marc catches Philippe wearing women’s clothes, he starts to torment and humiliate him repeatedly in front of his friends and fiancée. In the end, however, Philippe discovers a way to beat Marc at his own game, making the most of his feminine traits while he’s about it.... Using the oppressive experience from his youth, the filmmaker opens up our entire world, laying bare its hypocrisy, the pettiness of its prejudices, and its hidden racism.” (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Patrick Dewaere
France
Best movies:
The Spies (1957)
A Bad Son (1980)
The Scoundrel (1971)
Patrick Bouchitey
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1973)
Lune froide (1991)
Christine Pascal
France
Best movies:
The Grand Highway (1987)
'Round Midnight (1986)
The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Claude Piéplu
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
I'm Losing My Temper (1974)
Michel Blanc
France
Best movies:
The Fugitives (1986)
Prospero's Books (1991)
The Tenant (1976)
Nathan Miller
Best movies:
The Wild Child (1970)
The Best Way to Walk (1976)
The Green Room (1978)
Marc Chapiteau
France
Best movies:
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
Mado (1976)
La Vie en rose (2007)
Michel Such
France
Best movies:
The Inquisitor (1981)
Les Risques du métier (1967)
The Best Way to Walk (1976)