Fierrot Le Pou
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Actor-writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz is one of the leading filmmakers to emerge from France in the last ten years. He is perhaps best known as the writer/director of the acclaimed French drama LA HAINE (HATE), which, in 1995, garnered the French César Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Editing and won Kassovitz the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Every Sunday, Solange comes to the gymnasium to practice basket ball on her own. Every Sunday, at the same time, a young Parisain comes to practice too. He's used to failing in trying to impress her with his scores. And every Sunday, she smiles, enjoying watching him gesticulate. But this particular Sunday, the young man is playing an unerring score... "My father's first piece of advice before I started making this film was to, 'make it with whatever means you have. Count your pennies and then invent a story'. Means I didn't really have, so I invented a story that didn't require dialogue or lighting. The camera was a 16mm Bolex with a spring wind that made it possible to film 30 seconds straight. The greatest part of the budget went on an adaptor for photo lenses that cost a horrible 700 francs (I still remember the cost)". Mathieu Kassovitz on Fierrot Le Pou
This film has never been screened
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