Bébé Tigre
Céline’s role: Storyline consultant
English
Title
Young
Tiger
Year
2014
(French release 14 January 2015)
Céline’s
Role
Storyline
consultant
Director
Cyprien
Vial
Screenwriter
Cyprien
Vial, with storyline consultants Céline Sciamma & Marie Amachoukeli
Producers
Isabelle
Madelaine & Emilie Tisné
Form
Feature
film (1h 27 mins)
Synopsis
Many, a
17-year-old Indian boy from Punjab, has been taken care of by the French
Government when he arrived in Paris 2 years ago. On the way to an exemplary
integration, he divides his time between school, friends, his girlfriend
Elisabeth and the Sikh temple. His life could be the one of an average teenager
if he didn’t feel the pressure to send money to his parents back home…
Trailer
Honours/Awards
- Nominated, Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film
- Nominated, Lumières Award for Best First Film
- Nominated, Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor for Harmandeep Palminder
- Chistera for best film at the 2014 Saint-Jean-de-Luz International Film Festival for Bébé Tigre (Youth Jury Prize)
- Selection, Festival du film indépendant de Bordeaux (France)
- Selection, Festival International du Film de Saint-Jean-de-Luz (France)
- Selection, Festival du Film Francophone de Namur (Belguim)
- Selection, Abu Dhabi Film Festival (UAE)
- Selection, Arras Film Festival (France)
- Selection, Sarlat Film Festival (France)
- Selection, BUFF Film Festival (Sweden)
- Selection, Schlingel Film Festival (Germany)
Excerpts
from reviews
“Cyprien
Vial’s impressive debut offers a rare glimpse at a member of France's Indian
Sikh community.”
Variety
https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/young-tiger-review-1201457912/
“Focusing
his camera on a seldom-seen part of the multiethnic enclaves surrounding Paris,
writer-director Cyprien Vial offers up a compelling debut
feature with his coming-of-age immigrant drama Young Tiger (Bebe
Tigre). Reminiscent of the Dardenne brothers’ The
Silence of Lorna in its portrayal of an illegal alien caught between
economic necessities and moral ambiguities, this authentic if not entirely
groundbreaking exercise could garner art house interest outside of France,
especially for newcomer Harmandeep Palminder’s touching lead
performance.”
Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/young-tiger-bebe-tigre-film-764723/
“The social argument seems to dominate in
Cyprien Vial's first film, but the humanist gesture prevails over any other
prerogative. The young filmmaker nurtures a true love for the mixed youth
he films. His desire to accompany his characters at all times, by means of
a mobile camera, and to attach to his dramaturgy the throbbing of hearts and
the tearing of choice, makes his film a modern tragedy.”
Comments
Cyprien
Vial was in the production stream at La Fémis two years behind Céline Sciamma.
Producer
Isabelle Madelaine was also the producer of the short film Mademoiselle (2014)
that we looked at yesterday.
According to an interview with the
screenwriter & director Cyprien Vial in the film’s Press Kit, Céline Sciamma
“helped me to polish the structure of the film and part of the dialogue”.
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