Crache coeur
Julia Kowalski
Rose, a young woman with troubled desire, gets involved in the live of a Polish worker who has come to France to look for his son. A triangular relationship starts between these three characters and gradually sets in motions things that will change all their lives for ever.
With : Liv Henneguier, Yoann Zimmer, Andrzej Chyra, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Léa Mesnil
Screenplay : Julia Kowalski
Image : Simon Beaufils
Sound : Philippe Deschamps, François Mereu, Xavier Thieulin
Editing : Martial Salomon
Music : Daniel Kowalski
Screenplay : Julia Kowalski
Image : Simon Beaufils
Sound : Philippe Deschamps, François Mereu, Xavier Thieulin
Editing : Martial Salomon
Music : Daniel Kowalski
Production : Les Films de Françoise (France)
26, rue Danielle Casanova
75002 Paris France
mina.driouche@lesfilmsdefrancoise.fr
Donten & Lacroix (Pologne)
02-790 Warsaw, Pietraszewicza-Lota 1/3 street
biuro@dontenlacroix.eu
(0048) 516 516 606
Distribution: Zootrope Films
http://www.zootropefilms.fr/
26, rue Danielle Casanova
75002 Paris France
mina.driouche@lesfilmsdefrancoise.fr
Donten & Lacroix (Pologne)
02-790 Warsaw, Pietraszewicza-Lota 1/3 street
biuro@dontenlacroix.eu
(0048) 516 516 606
Distribution: Zootrope Films
http://www.zootropefilms.fr/
Born in France to Polish parents, it was when she made her first documentary that Julia Kowalski started a genuine search for identity, linking her to her country of origin. Since then, she has continued to hone her favoured themes: the working class environment, adolescence, the family, sexuality. Her short film Musique de chambre was selected for several festivals. Crache cœur is her first feature. It won the Sopadin Prize for best screenplay and was present in the ACID selection in Cannes.
“I wanted to bring together two themes which are close to my heart: adolescence and my Polish roots. Teenagers, who are thankless yet so sexual, are an insatiable subject for the cinema. Adolescence is the age when everything is possible… and all excesses. When I was a teenager, everything seemed out of proportion: a black and white toing and froing between enchantment and disappointment, where tiny things can cause great joy, before becoming a massive drama. I wanted Crache cœur to be close to a cruel, romantic story: I happily accept the stylisation of the colours, the lighting, the sets and costumes… all elements which make it possible to depict a particular atmosphere closer to painting than a documentary rooted in a socially marked present. What motivates the characters if the force of desire which moves from one body to another. I wanted to make a visceral, burning film, where each shot radiates the desire, the emptiness and the frustration of its protagonists.”
“I wanted to bring together two themes which are close to my heart: adolescence and my Polish roots. Teenagers, who are thankless yet so sexual, are an insatiable subject for the cinema. Adolescence is the age when everything is possible… and all excesses. When I was a teenager, everything seemed out of proportion: a black and white toing and froing between enchantment and disappointment, where tiny things can cause great joy, before becoming a massive drama. I wanted Crache cœur to be close to a cruel, romantic story: I happily accept the stylisation of the colours, the lighting, the sets and costumes… all elements which make it possible to depict a particular atmosphere closer to painting than a documentary rooted in a socially marked present. What motivates the characters if the force of desire which moves from one body to another. I wanted to make a visceral, burning film, where each shot radiates the desire, the emptiness and the frustration of its protagonists.”