La Belle Vie
Jean Denizot
Sylvain and Pierre have been in hiding around France with their father, Yves, for the ten years following his divorce from their mother. But the children have grown up, and life on the run has deprived them of the dreams and joys of their age. As the net begins to close in around them and they have to take to the road again, Pierre, the elder brother, disappears. Alone with his father on an island in the Loire, Sylvain meets Gilda: the first girl, the first tender gazes and the first step on the road to a beautiful life, his own.
With : Zacharie Chasseriaud, Jules Pelissier, Solène Rigot, Nicolas Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Screenplay : Jean Denizot, Frédérique Moreau, Catherine Paillé
Image : Elin Kirsch Fink
Editing : Aurélien Manya
Sound : Marie-Clothilde Chery
Screenplay : Jean Denizot, Frédérique Moreau, Catherine Paillé
Image : Elin Kirsch Fink
Editing : Aurélien Manya
Sound : Marie-Clothilde Chery
Production : Mathieu Bompoint, Mezzanine Film
Jean Denizot was born in Sancerre, in the Cher department of France. He studied film at the LycéeGuist'hau in Nantes, and then at the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis. Denizot is an editor on journals such as La Voix du regard and Tête-à-Tête, and also teaches film (mainly at the University of Paris 8). He has made two short films: Mouche (2006) and Je me souviens (2008). He attended the Angers Workshop in 2011 with the script of La Belle Vie. It is his first feature-length film. "La Belle Vie is loosely based on the Fortin case, where a man kidnapped his two children and raised them in hiding, in the French countryside, for over ten years. In this film, which is dramatic and light-hearted, and even sensual at time, wherebeing on the run is a way of life, an identity, a mask, and where freedom is a distant hope, a sixteen-year-old boy decides to find his own way. That way will lead from the Pyrenees to the Loire Valley, from one family to another, and turn him into the man he never dreamed he could become".Jean Denizot