Passer l'hiver
Aurélia Barbet
On New Year's Eve, Claire and Martine, who work in a motorway petrol station, improvise an improbable party. A passing motorist suddenly going off with Claire. Early next morning she has still not returned. Martine is initially concerned, then worried by this disappearance, and starts investigating – which will take her into Claire's past and shake up her own life.
With : Lolita Chammah, Gabrielle Lazure
Screenplay : Aurélia Barbet, Christophe Cousin
Image : Laurent Desmet
Sound : Martin Gracineau, Jean-François Maître, Céline Bellanger, Frédéric Bielle
Editing : Agathe Dreyfus
Screenplay : Aurélia Barbet, Christophe Cousin
Image : Laurent Desmet
Sound : Martin Gracineau, Jean-François Maître, Céline Bellanger, Frédéric Bielle
Editing : Agathe Dreyfus
Production : Serge Duveau, Abelina Film Production, 116 rue de Charenton, 75012 Paris // Email : abelinafilms@free.fr // Tél. : + 33 (0)9 53 53 21 40
Aurélia Barbet was born in 1972. After studying history she founded Cinéaste Antibois. They made a dozen shorts together. Her arrival in Marseille in 2004 corresponds to a more intimate filmography. She made Hôtel Plasky in 2004, Cette femme à laquelle je pense in 2005 and co-directed Holiday with Agathe Dreyfus in 2005. She made a foray into documentaries with Ceux qui restent in 2011, which follows the reconstruction of a man whose wife committed suicide because of her work. In 2012 she made her first fiction feature, Passer L'hiver.
"The starting point of the film came when I read a short story by Olivier Adam: two women working in a petrol station on New Year's Eve, one of them goes off with a man... The desire to continue this story joined the paths I have been exploring in my film work: taking action, the tipping point of the female characters. Passer l'hiver was born from this desire to film these particular moments when the character takes a different direction, these fragile and unpredictable moments which reveal a part of oneself, something profoundly human, a risk, a choice which happens in an acute presence in the world" Aurélia Barbet.
"The starting point of the film came when I read a short story by Olivier Adam: two women working in a petrol station on New Year's Eve, one of them goes off with a man... The desire to continue this story joined the paths I have been exploring in my film work: taking action, the tipping point of the female characters. Passer l'hiver was born from this desire to film these particular moments when the character takes a different direction, these fragile and unpredictable moments which reveal a part of oneself, something profoundly human, a risk, a choice which happens in an acute presence in the world" Aurélia Barbet.