Mademoiselle
Céline Sciamma’s Role
Actress (uncredited)
Role: Fille
boîte
English Title
Young Lady
Year
2014
Form
Short Film (17 mins)
Trailer
Synopsis
Has anyone called you Ma’am? I can't remember
the last time a guy was rude to me. But Ma’am? For fuck's sake,
that's a totally different game. The little shit called me "Ma’am".
Director
Guillaume Gouix
Screenwriter
Guillaume Gouix
Editor
Albertine Lastera
Honours
- Selection, Venice International Film Festival (Italy, 2014)
- Nomination, Best Short film, Venice International Film Festival (Italy, 2014)
- Selection, FIFF (Belgium, 2014) (Francophone film festival)
- Selection, Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Sweden, 2015)
- Selection, Chelsea Film Festival (USA, 2014)
- Selection, Jeonju International Film Festival (Korea, 2015)
News about the film
"This is the second short film I've
directed, each time produced by Isabelle Madelaine of Dharamsala. In it, I've
attempted to depict the confrontation between two types of femininity, and the
way in which women today deal with the desire (at times violent) they provoke
and the desire which they believe they no longer provoke. My first impulse was
to film Céline Sallette and Fanny Touron, the film's
two protagonists, and to together confront the conflicting aspects of their
respective energies."
Guillaume Gouix,
Director
https://en.unifrance.org/news/12483/unifrance-sends-short-films-around-the-world-september-2014
Notes
Céline Sciamma’s appearance in this short
film is fleeting—blink and you may miss it! The she one of the uncredited filles
boîte (club girls) along with fellow director Rebecca Zlotowski (see below). She is thanked in the
credits.
Céline Salette is fabulous in the leading role of this short film—she plays the role of an attractive woman who is called ‘madame’, rather than ‘mademosielle’, by a young man. This sets her into a spin about life and getting older and all that. Salette plays the role with such vulnerability—she is fabulous!
Some interesting connections…
Starring in this short film is Céline Salette,
who was in the television series Les Revenants, which Céline Sciamma did
some writing for, and she was also in L'Apollonide Souvenirs de la Maison Close (2011,
directed by Bertrand Bonello) and in Un Peuple et Son Roi (2018) with Adèle
Haenel. Finnegan Oldfield, who appears in this short film,
starred in Nocturama (2016, directed by Bertrand Bonello) that had a
cameo appearance by Adèle Haenel.
Also appearing in this short film is Vincent Deniard, who was also in Un Peuple et Son Roi (2018) with Adèle Haenel.
The screenwriter and director of this short film, Guillaume Gouix, starred with Adèle Haenel in the film Alyah (2012) and he acted in the television series Les Revenants with Céline Salette and that Céline Sciamma did some writing for.
The executive producer of the short film is Isabelle Madelaine. Isabelle also produced the feature film Bébé Tigre (2014), which we will look at soon.
Céline Sciamma & Rebecca Zlotowski: Filles boîte in Mademoiselle
Of note is the appearance of director and screenwriter Rebecca Zlotowski in this short film, appearing alongside Céline Sciamma as ‘Filles boîte’, which I think translates as ‘club girls’. Rebecca was at La Fémis in the class of 2007 studying screenwriting, while Céline Sciamma was two years ahead of her in the class of 2005 in the same stream. While at La Fémis Rebecca became friends with Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, who introduced her to Céline Sciamma.
In 2013 Céline Sciamma and Rebecca Zlotowski founded Le Deuxieme Regard, which was a network aiming to raise gender stereotypes in cinema and work toward for gender equality in the industry, by leading an information and initiatives policy, by acting as a laboratory of ideas and by constituting a force of proposals for the industry.
It has become the 2020 50/50 Collective.
The 50/50 collective (or 5050 collective for 2020 ) is a French association whose goal is to promote equality between women and men and diversity in the cinema and audiovisual industries. To do this, it relies on quantitative studies, in particular concerning wage inequalities and the proportion of women in film production professions.
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