37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Le Collectionneur

Thomas Lévy-Lasne

Image Le Collectionneur
France
2017 Fiction 24 min
Émilien, a young figurative painter, is taken in by a major collector who is preparing to move to Hong Kong. In the middle of a jumble of packing cases, they talk about painting. The collector unveils his vast and surprising collection of Old Masters. Rubens, Titian, Velázquez, Vermeer, Rembrandt, they are all there. Émilien finally understands that the owner of these hundreds of unknown masterpieces also collects the artists…
With : Benoît Forgeard, Pierre Jouan
scénario : Thomas Lévy-Lasne
image : Thom Harari
son : Julien Sicart, Pierre Bariaud
montage : Laurent Sénéchal
musique : Julien Gester
Production : Nicolas Anthomé, Bathysphère Productions
Thomas Lévy-Lasne (1980) is a painter and director. After studying at Fine Arts in Paris, he worked for art critic Hector Obalk, travelling the museums of Europe making television reports on art. In the cinema he has worked with Justine Triet, taking the lead role in her film Vilaine fille, mauvais garçon, and writing the screenplay of Victoria. Le Collectionneur is his first film.