Jimmy Rivière
Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Jimmy Rivière is a Romani, solar and nervous (sometimes a little too much). Under pressure from his community, he converts to Pentecostalism and gives up on his two passions: Thai boxing and Sonia. But how can he turn down the new fight his trainer offers him? And how can he resist the strength of the desire which binds him to Sonia?
With : Guillaume Gouix, Béatrice Dalle, Hafsia Herzi, Serge Riaboukine, Pamela Flores
Screenplay : Rebecca Zlotowski, Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Image : Claudine Natkin
Sound : Antoine Corbin, Julien Ngo Trong, Mélissa Petitjean
Editing : Albertine Lastera
Music : Rob
Screenplay : Rebecca Zlotowski, Teddy Lussi-Modeste
Image : Claudine Natkin
Sound : Antoine Corbin, Julien Ngo Trong, Mélissa Petitjean
Editing : Albertine Lastera
Music : Rob
Production : KAZAK Production, Jean-Christophe Reymond //
16, rue Bleue 75009 Paris //
Tel : +33 (0) 1 48 24 30 57 / Email : jcr@kazakproductions.fr
Distribution: Pyramide Distribution //
5 rue du Chevalier de Saint-George 75008 Paris //
Tel : +33 1 42 96 01 01 / Email : distribution@pyramidefilms.com
16, rue Bleue 75009 Paris //
Tel : +33 (0) 1 48 24 30 57 / Email : jcr@kazakproductions.fr
Distribution: Pyramide Distribution //
5 rue du Chevalier de Saint-George 75008 Paris //
Tel : +33 1 42 96 01 01 / Email : distribution@pyramidefilms.com
Teddy Lussi-Modeste is from the traveller community, and was born in Grenoble in 1978. After studying literature, he went to La fémis. In 2004 he made Embrasser les tigres, Dans l'oeil in 2006, Je viens and 2008, which was selected for Premiers Plans. In 2010 he moved into making features with Jimmy Rivière, a film which he wrote with Rebecca Zlotowski. The film's script was selected for the Festival's Ateliers in 2007, and was read as part of the feature film screenplay readings in 2009. "I wanted to trace the path of a young Romani that everyone can relate to. His story raises the question of belonging to a group and the way in which you can move away from it without turning your back on it. The most honest way, the most sincere and even the most realistic way of entering into my community – taking the words, the rites, the faces that I know so well and which I have never seen correctly portrayed – meant that I would have to employ a certain Romanesque form".