La Lisière

Geraldine Bajard grew up in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, India and France. She studied in Paris at the Ecole Normale Supérieure as well as cinema at the Sorbonne. Afterwards, she studied directing at the DffB (German Film and Television Academy) and directed short films (Petit Conte pour enfant majeur, Squash). She worked as an assistant to Angela Schanelec, Valeska Grisebach and Claire Denis. She has also been commissioned as a consultant for scenarios (Lourdes, Jessica Hausner, Official Competition Venice Film Festival 2009). The Edge is her first feature film."Adolescence, play, ritualWhat I particularly wanted was to depict adolescence as a force, an energy, to show youth which – even bitterly – gets the upper hand. The youth of Beauval have desires, clear hatred, which under the yoke of affect can become fatal. That was where one of the challenges lay for me: creating he resonance of the infantile dimension of the game in the audience, the inconsequent cruelty of the passage from childhood to adulthood, its grave innocence. This means that there is no way out for the character of the doctor, François."The game scene, the occasional ritual of history, are a little like a refrain in a nursery rhyme. Simple, repetitive and each time more grating. I wanted to show the movements, the repeated gestures, the stereotypical attitudes to be able to take part in these games, the thrilling aspect of these games that the teenagers in the Beauval gang take part in" (Géraldine Bajard).