Pigalle
Karim Dridi
Pigalle, one of Paris's most infamous red-light districts, is a strange and magical place where drug dealers, transvestites, strippers and pimps mingle, live and die. It is where Fifi, a young pickpocket, loves and loses Divine, and then meets Vera, in a world where there is no place for innocence.
With : Véra Briole, Françis Renaud, Blanca Li.
Screenplay : Karim Dridi
Image : John Mathieson
Sound : Louis Gimel
Editing : Lise Beaulieu
Decors : Gilles Bontemps
Screenplay : Karim Dridi
Image : John Mathieson
Sound : Louis Gimel
Editing : Lise Beaulieu
Decors : Gilles Bontemps
Production : Diaphana, 50, rue de Paradis, 75010 Paris
Karim Dridi was born in 1961. He wrote fifteen or so short films before making a serie of short films that attracted a great deal of attention : "Mains de" (1985), "Dans le sac", "Zoë la boxeuse" (1992), "Le boxeur endormi" (1993). "Pigalle" is Dridi's first feature-lenght film, and he is currently shooting a second, "Bye Bye".