Les Drapeaux de papier
Nathan Ambrosioni
Charlie, almost 24, leads a life without excesses: she dreams of being an artist and finds it difficult to make ends meet. When her brother comes to find her after an absence of 12 years, everything is turned upside down. Vincent is 30 and has just come out of prison where he had served a long sentence. He has everything to learn about the world he no longer knows. Charlie is ready to help him. He's her brother, after all, her brother whose anger can become incontrollable and destroy everything despite himself.
With : Guillaume Gouix, Sébastien Houbani, Jérôme Kircher, Anne Loiret, Noémie Merlant, Alysson Paradis
Screenplay, Editing : Nathan Ambrosioni
Image : Raphaël Vandenbussche
Sound : Laurent Benaïm
Screenplay, Editing : Nathan Ambrosioni
Image : Raphaël Vandenbussche
Sound : Laurent Benaïm
Production : Sensito Films, Orage Films
Distribution: REZO FILMS
Distribution: REZO FILMS
Nathan Ambrosioni was born in Grasse in 1999. At the end of 2014 he took the plunge and made his first film. In 2015 he made Au bord du lac (The Lake), making him the youngest director selected for the London Fright Fest and Avec toi (best photo) at 48 HFP Côte d'Azur. Although without funding, he wrote and directed Ce qui nous reste in 2016, with Zoé Adjani in the lead role. The film was selected for the festivals of Calgary and San Francisco. At 17, he made his first produced feature, Les Drapeaux de papier (Paper Flags), with Noémie Merlant and Guillaume Gouix.
“When I started writing the film I absolutely wanted to talk about freedom. You think about it a lot when you become an adult, and personally it was at the core of my questions, so exploring it in film was an obvious track for me. I found an article on internet, a portrait of a former convict when he was released from prison without any form of support, and I was totally blown away. This man talked about freedom in a very particular way, [..] and I immediately wanted to explore prison releases and, above all, the reunion with a previous life, a family which has become unknown but which is nevertheless essential to get your bearings back. My character could not get by all by himself. So I thought about the little sister, who is now more of an adult than he is.” (Nathan Ambrosioni)
“When I started writing the film I absolutely wanted to talk about freedom. You think about it a lot when you become an adult, and personally it was at the core of my questions, so exploring it in film was an obvious track for me. I found an article on internet, a portrait of a former convict when he was released from prison without any form of support, and I was totally blown away. This man talked about freedom in a very particular way, [..] and I immediately wanted to explore prison releases and, above all, the reunion with a previous life, a family which has become unknown but which is nevertheless essential to get your bearings back. My character could not get by all by himself. So I thought about the little sister, who is now more of an adult than he is.” (Nathan Ambrosioni)