Patients
Grand Corps Malade, Mehdi Idir
Getting washed, walking, playing basketball, this is what Ben can no longer do after arriving in a rehabilitation centre following a serious accident. His new friends are tetraplegics, paraplegics, cranial fracture victims… in short people with all sorts of handicaps. Together they learn patience. They will resist, become tired, argue, attract each other, but above all they will find the energy to learn how to live again. Based on the novel by Grand Corps Malade.
With : Pablo Pauly, Soufiane Guerrab, Moussa Mansaly, Naïlia Harzoune et Franck Falise
Screenplay : Grand Corps Malade et Fadette Drouard
Image : Antoine Monod
Sound : Jean-Paul Bernard
Editing : Laure Gardette
Screenplay : Grand Corps Malade et Fadette Drouard
Image : Antoine Monod
Sound : Jean-Paul Bernard
Editing : Laure Gardette
Production : Eric et Nicolas Altmayer (Mandarin Production), Jean Rachid Kallouche (Kallouche Cinema) et Sidonie Dumas (Gaumont)
Distribution: Gaumont
http://www.gaumont.fr/
Distribution: Gaumont
http://www.gaumont.fr/
After selling more than 1 600 000 albums (5 albums) and giving more than 500 concerts around the world in 10 years, writing for and working with leading artists, Grand Corps Malade met with new success with his first book, Patients. He is now putting images to his words, co-directing the film inspired by this book with his friend, director Mehdi Idir
Former dancer, film lover and self-taught filmmaker, Mehdi Idir directed his first project in 2004, a documentary on the first French group to be hip-hop world champions (Wanted-posse). For the past 10 years, he has developed his own style in all media: music videos (Grand Corps Malade, Ibrahim Maalouf), commercials (Coca-Cola, Peugeot), TV programmes (Clique, La nuit nous appartient), documentaries, live performances, short films… Patients, co-directed with his long-time friend Grand Corps Malade, is his first feature.
Above all I want the audience to be happy to discover new actors, for them to remember their names, and that the film can change their point of view on disability. Even if the effect only lasts for a while. The real Farid told me one day: “When people meet you for the first time, you're nothing but a disabled person. It's your only identity”. This marked me. I will only be happy when someone from the audience see someone in a wheelchair and sees a human being, who has experienced a drama, and has fought back.
Former dancer, film lover and self-taught filmmaker, Mehdi Idir directed his first project in 2004, a documentary on the first French group to be hip-hop world champions (Wanted-posse). For the past 10 years, he has developed his own style in all media: music videos (Grand Corps Malade, Ibrahim Maalouf), commercials (Coca-Cola, Peugeot), TV programmes (Clique, La nuit nous appartient), documentaries, live performances, short films… Patients, co-directed with his long-time friend Grand Corps Malade, is his first feature.
Above all I want the audience to be happy to discover new actors, for them to remember their names, and that the film can change their point of view on disability. Even if the effect only lasts for a while. The real Farid told me one day: “When people meet you for the first time, you're nothing but a disabled person. It's your only identity”. This marked me. I will only be happy when someone from the audience see someone in a wheelchair and sees a human being, who has experienced a drama, and has fought back.