Les Garçons sauvages
Bertrand Mandico
At the beginning of the 20th century on the island of La Réunion, five adolescents of good family, enamoured with the occult, commit a savage crime. A Dutch Captain takes them in charge for a repressive cruise on a haunted, dilapidated sailboat. Exhausted by the methods of the Captain, the five boys prepare to mutiny. Their port of call is a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers. The metamorphosis can begin …
With : Pauline Lorillard, Vimala Pons, Diane Rouxel, Annaël Snoek, Mathilde Warnier, Sam Louwyck, Elina Lowensohn, Nathalie Richard
scénario : Bertrand Mandico
image : Pascale Granel
son : Simon Apostolou, Laure Saint Marc, Daniel Gries
montage : Laure Saint Marc
musique : Pierre Desprats, Hekla Magnusdottir
scénario : Bertrand Mandico
image : Pascale Granel
son : Simon Apostolou, Laure Saint Marc, Daniel Gries
montage : Laure Saint Marc
musique : Pierre Desprats, Hekla Magnusdottir
Production : Emmanuel Chaumet, ECCE Films
Distribution: UFO
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Distribution: UFO
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Born in 1971, Bertrand Mandico went to CFT Gobelins in Paris where he graduated in animated film. Creating a twilight world, he works on the cinematographic and narrative matter by revisiting genres. His research is polymorphic (text, photos, drawing, assemblies). He is also working on a project of 21 films in 21 years with Elina Löwensohn, a reflection on the bodily states of the actress and fiction. Bertrand Mandico is currently editing his short film, The Return of Tragedy and has just finished filming Ultra Pulpe. In parallel he is working on several feature projects and a series.
“I just wanted to make the film I wanted to see, not to deny my pleasure as a spectator. Exploring a type of fantastic narrative that we are not used to developing when starting on a feature: a story which blends adventure and surrealism, a tropical island and a studio, a boat and a storm… When I filmed, I tried to embrace the fantasy every day, always with the idea of taking the audience in my wake” (Bertrand Mandico).
“I just wanted to make the film I wanted to see, not to deny my pleasure as a spectator. Exploring a type of fantastic narrative that we are not used to developing when starting on a feature: a story which blends adventure and surrealism, a tropical island and a studio, a boat and a storm… When I filmed, I tried to embrace the fantasy every day, always with the idea of taking the audience in my wake” (Bertrand Mandico).