Keeper
Guillaume Senez
Maxime and Mélanie are in love. Together they explore their sexuality with love and clumsiness. One day Mélanie learns that she is pregnant. Maxime takes the news badly, but, little buy little, accepts the idea of becoming a father. He convinces Mélanie to keep the child. The decision is taken, all of 15 Maxime and Mélanie are going to become parents…
With : Kacey Mottet Klein, Galatea Bellugi, Catherine Salée, Sam Louwyck, Laetitia Dosch, Aaron Duquaine, Léopold Buchsbaum
Screenplay : Guillaume Senez, David Lambert
Image : Denis Jutzeler
Sound : Eric Ghersinu, Franco Piscopo, Virginie Messian
Editing : Julie Brenta
Screenplay : Guillaume Senez, David Lambert
Image : Denis Jutzeler
Sound : Eric Ghersinu, Franco Piscopo, Virginie Messian
Editing : Julie Brenta
Production : Offshore
18, rue Saint Marc
75002 Paris FRANCE
+33175436500
production@offshore.fr
Distribution: Happiness
http://www.happinessdistribution.com/
18, rue Saint Marc
75002 Paris FRANCE
+33175436500
production@offshore.fr
Distribution: Happiness
http://www.happinessdistribution.com/
Guillaume Senez is Franco-Belgian and lives in Brussels. After his graduation film from INRACI in 2001, he made three shorts, which won awards is several festivals around the world: La Quadrature du cercle in 2006, Dans nos veines in 2009, and U.H.T. in 2012 (nominated for the Magrittes for Belgian Cinemain the best short films category). Keeper is his first feature.
“What I chose to film here is the pathway to paternity, because, as a father of 2, this is what speaks to me most.
“I am not looking for originality, just accuracy. Particularly precision in the acting, in a realistic cinematographic style. I don't give the script to my actors, we go off together in search of emotional authenticity. I don't direct my actors, I accompany them. I try not to build characters within a frame, but to reveal them well beyond. Revealing a history emanating from life. That honesty of life which is so rare to capture.
“In Belgium, the word Keeper refers to a goalkeeper, as in many English-speaking countries. I found it interesting to put Maxime in this relatively thankless position, which, in terms of powerlessness, is resonant of Maxime's impotence in the face of Mélanie's pregnancy. Keeper is, at the end of the day, a film about desire”.
“What I chose to film here is the pathway to paternity, because, as a father of 2, this is what speaks to me most.
“I am not looking for originality, just accuracy. Particularly precision in the acting, in a realistic cinematographic style. I don't give the script to my actors, we go off together in search of emotional authenticity. I don't direct my actors, I accompany them. I try not to build characters within a frame, but to reveal them well beyond. Revealing a history emanating from life. That honesty of life which is so rare to capture.
“In Belgium, the word Keeper refers to a goalkeeper, as in many English-speaking countries. I found it interesting to put Maxime in this relatively thankless position, which, in terms of powerlessness, is resonant of Maxime's impotence in the face of Mélanie's pregnancy. Keeper is, at the end of the day, a film about desire”.