Baden Baden
Rachel Lang
After a failed experience on a foreign film shoot, Ana, 26, returns to her home town of Strasburg. During the summer heat wave she decides to replace her grandmother's bath with a walk-in shower, eats peas and carrots with ketchup, drives around in a Porsche, picks greengages, loses her licence, sleeps with her best friend and falls into the arms of her ex. In short, that summer Ana tries to sort out her life.
With : Salomé Richard, Claude Gensac, Swann Arlaud, Olivier Chantreau, Lazare Gousseau, Zabou Breitman, Jorijn Vriesendorp, Driss Ramdi, Noémie Rosset, Thomas Silberstein
Screenplay : Rachel Lang
Image : Fiona Braillon
Sound : Aline Huber, David Vranken
Editing : Sophie Vercruysse
Screenplay : Rachel Lang
Image : Fiona Braillon
Sound : Aline Huber, David Vranken
Editing : Sophie Vercruysse
Production : Chevaldeuxtrois
Jérémy Forni
29 Rue Marcel Dassault
92100 Boulogne Billancourt
France
+33 1 85 08 31 44 /+33 6 60 93 91 09
contact@chevaldeuxtrois.com
Tarantula Belgique
Joseph Rouschop
99, rue Auguste Donnay
4000 Liège
Belgique
Tél. : +32 4 225 90 79
Distribution: Jour2fête
International sales: VENTES INTERNATIONALES Samuel Blanc Jour2fête 9 rue Ambroise Thomas 75009 PARIS 01 75 43 26 82 samuel.blanc@jour2fete.com
Jérémy Forni
29 Rue Marcel Dassault
92100 Boulogne Billancourt
France
+33 1 85 08 31 44 /+33 6 60 93 91 09
contact@chevaldeuxtrois.com
Tarantula Belgique
Joseph Rouschop
99, rue Auguste Donnay
4000 Liège
Belgique
Tél. : +32 4 225 90 79
Distribution: Jour2fête
International sales: VENTES INTERNATIONALES Samuel Blanc Jour2fête 9 rue Ambroise Thomas 75009 PARIS 01 75 43 26 82 samuel.blanc@jour2fete.com
Rachel Lang was born in Strasburg in A984. After two years studying philosophy and in parallel at the School for Dramatic Arts in Strasburg she went to the IAD in Belgium. Pour toi je ferai bataille (winner, among other awards, of the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Festival in 2010 and shown at Premiers Plans) is her graduation film. It starts a cycle on the theme of moving from adolescence into adulthood. Les Navets blancs empêchent de dormir (2011), her first professional short, was also selected at Premiers Plans. Produced by Chevaldeuxtrois in France and Tarantula in Belgique (and developed at the Ateliers d'Angers), Baden Baden Is Rachel Lang's first feature and the end of this trilogy.
"Baden Baden is the story of a summer, the moment of returning to a familiar town but after a long period of time. The town you grew up in, where you went to school. The town where families staid whereas most of the friends left to go and study elsewhere. In this return there is a sort of strange nostalgia, the nostalgia of adolescence, and of lost innocence. In these few weeks of a heatwave there is something definite and absolute. Something which melts in the sun. All that remains is dried up, dehydrated like an OXO cube, or coffee powder. And even when it is rehydrated it doesn't really have the same taste. I would like to make a film on this strange feeling. That moment when you suddenly grasp that until now there had always been a safety net”.
"Baden Baden is the story of a summer, the moment of returning to a familiar town but after a long period of time. The town you grew up in, where you went to school. The town where families staid whereas most of the friends left to go and study elsewhere. In this return there is a sort of strange nostalgia, the nostalgia of adolescence, and of lost innocence. In these few weeks of a heatwave there is something definite and absolute. Something which melts in the sun. All that remains is dried up, dehydrated like an OXO cube, or coffee powder. And even when it is rehydrated it doesn't really have the same taste. I would like to make a film on this strange feeling. That moment when you suddenly grasp that until now there had always been a safety net”.