La Marcheuse
Naël Marandin
Lin Aiyu, an Chinese illegal immigrant, is a prostitute in the streets of Belleville in paris. She lives with her teenage daughter, who she hides her job from. Their lives are turned upside-down one night when an unknown injured man suddenly bursts into their home. Sometimes an abductor, sometimes a prisoner, the man is nevertheless a threat and an opportunity to be taken.
With : Qiu Lan, Yannick Choirat, Louise Chen, Philippe Laudenbach
Screenplay : Naël Marandin et Marion Doussot
Image : Colin Houben
Sound : Mathieu Descamps
Editing : Damien Maestraggi
Music originale : The Ghostdance
Screenplay : Naël Marandin et Marion Doussot
Image : Colin Houben
Sound : Mathieu Descamps
Editing : Damien Maestraggi
Music originale : The Ghostdance
Production : Folamour Productions, 6, villa du Clos de Malevart, 75011 Paris
Distribution: REZO FILMS
Distribution: REZO FILMS
Naël Marandin was a, actor as a teenager. After studying political science, he went to stay in China. He has made two award-winning shorts. La marcheuse, his first feature, is inspired by his work reaching out to Chinese women working as prostitutes in Paris. This project was selected for the Ateliers d'Angers in 2009.
“In my short films I explored dubious attractions, where curiosity and desire a combined. I explored how the social order influences the intimate order, how the need and interest form feelings and desire, how insecurity and exclusion mark people and their encounters. When I met Chinese women working as prostitutes in Belleville the project became natural.
“For 6 years, and thanks to my knowledge of Mandarin, I accompanied these women in their medical and administrative procedures. They shared their stories, their hopes, their visions of the world with me. Their stories, and some of the scenes I witnessed, fed into my script. La Marcheuse is a fiction, but I wanted it to be deeply rooted in reality. The film was shot in the streets of Belleville with non-professional actresses, some of whose lives are very similar to my heroin's”.
“In my short films I explored dubious attractions, where curiosity and desire a combined. I explored how the social order influences the intimate order, how the need and interest form feelings and desire, how insecurity and exclusion mark people and their encounters. When I met Chinese women working as prostitutes in Belleville the project became natural.
“For 6 years, and thanks to my knowledge of Mandarin, I accompanied these women in their medical and administrative procedures. They shared their stories, their hopes, their visions of the world with me. Their stories, and some of the scenes I witnessed, fed into my script. La Marcheuse is a fiction, but I wanted it to be deeply rooted in reality. The film was shot in the streets of Belleville with non-professional actresses, some of whose lives are very similar to my heroin's”.