L'Arrière-Pays
Jacques Nolot
After a ten year abscence, Jacques Pruez, fifty, single and an actor of supporting roles, returns to his village, to be with his dying mother. He stys with his aunts Aimée and Jeofrette, and in this way catches up on all the village gossip. Yvan, his father, "the hairdresser for young and old" counts on his "successful son" to look after him in his retirement. He doesn't believe that his wife is sick, but rather that the doctors are slowly killing her. His brother Alain, a policeman from Bordeaux, argues about the old man's future, but does not want to look after him at all. A prisoner of the village, his memories and childwood, Jacques relives the moments that made him so different.
With : Jacques Nolot, Henri Gardey, Christian Sempe, Henriette Sempe, Mathilde Mone, Raphaëline Goupilleau, Simone Artus, Christine Paolini, Yvette Etchegaray, Serge Caumont, Héloïse Mignot, Germaine Levrel
Screenplay : Jacques Nolot
Image : Agnès Godard
Sound : Jean-Louis Ughetto
Editing : Martine Giordano
Screenplay : Jacques Nolot
Image : Agnès Godard
Sound : Jean-Louis Ughetto
Editing : Martine Giordano
Production : Magouric Productions, 9 rue de Clignancourt 75018 Paris Tél. 00 33 1 53 09 93 10 / Fax. 00 33 1 42 52 35 48
An actor by training, Jacques Nolot has also written theatre plays, "la Matiouëtte", "Le café de Jules"..., short stories and screenplays. He has acted in various theatre productions since 1974, and also for television and cinema films (among others under the direction of Téchiné, Vecchiali, Dubroux, Claire Denis...). He has also co-written several scenarios for feature films, among others with André Téchiné "J'embrasse pas", and directed a short film "Le mariage",. Jacques Nolot read last year in Angers the script of "L'arrière pays", his first feature film.