L'Age atomique
Héléna Klotz
Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the night, they leave the city for the forest. In the silence of the moonlight nature, the desire between the two friends becomes increasingly vibrant. A new day is born from their friendship.
With : Dominick Wojcik, Eliott Paquet, Niels Schneider, Mathilde Bisson
Screenplay : Héléna Klotz
Image : Hélène Louvart
Editing : Cristóbal Fernández, Marion Monnier
Sound : Matthieu Perrot, Emmanuel Soland
Screenplay : Héléna Klotz
Image : Hélène Louvart
Editing : Cristóbal Fernández, Marion Monnier
Sound : Matthieu Perrot, Emmanuel Soland
Production : Kidam Production, Alexandre Perrier, 8, rue Edouard Robert, 75012 Paris, France / Tel : +33 1 46 28 53 17 / Email : diffusion@kidam.net
Born in 1979, Héléna Klotz started her career in the theatre as an assistant director. She then worked in casting on features by Nicolas Klotz, Laurent Achard, Katell Quillévéré and Eva Ionesco. In 2003 she made her first short, Le Léopard ne se déplace jamais sans ses taches, which was selected for the Locarno Festival. "The story of L'Âge Atomique is deliberately ordinary. But I would like it to be difficult to resist the emotions it provokes: a vast, strong sadness which evaporates in the carefree enthusiasm of the burgeoning desire... In Victor and Rainer there is something which transpires from my generation and the losses within it: a certain melancholic euphoria, an indefinable despair. But friendship is still there, incredibly solid, brotherly, solar. L'Âge atomique is not a sociological study on adolescence, but a film during the adolescence of the characters, combining what is contemporary, sentimental and eternal in it".