38th edition
17-25 january 2026

La Défaite du rouge-gorge

Valérie Mréjen

France
2001 Fiction 23 min
Lucie is a young thirty-something girl, timid and introverted. At a friend's party, she meets Bertrand, with whom she decides to fall in love. Impatient to experience true love, she projects onto him the whole of her hopes and expectations...
With : Jocelyne Desverchère, Scali Delpuyat, Edouard Levé
Screenplay : Valérie Mréjen, Stéphane Bouquet
Image : Catherine Pujol
Sound : Yolande Decausin
Editing : Camille Maury
Production : Production Capricci Films, Charlotte Vincent // 23 rue La Boétie, 75008 Paris, France // Tel : +33 1 49 24 00 54 / Fax : +33 1 49 24 00 86 // Email : charlottevin@noos.fr
Valérie Mréjen was born in 1969 in Paris, and studied Art in Cergy-Pontoise. Videographer and writer, starting in 1997 she directed a large number of 1 to 4 minute video films that were shown in Angers as part of the "New images" selection in 2000 and 2001. La défaite du rouge-gorge is an adaptation of her latest novel, "L'agrume", and is her first non-video short film.