Sparring
Samuel Jouy
Now aged over 40, Steve Landry (Mathieu Kassovitz) is a boxer who has lost more fights than he has won. Before hanging up his gloves, he accepts an offer that many boxers prefer to refuse: becoming the sparring partner of a great champion.
With : Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivia Merilahti, Souleymane M'Baye, Billie Blain, Lyes Salem, David Saracino, Ali Labidi
scénario : Samuel Jouy, Clément Roussier, Jérémie Guez
image : Romain Carcanade
son : Jérôme Chenevoy
montage : Tina Baz
musique : Olivia Merilahti
scénario : Samuel Jouy, Clément Roussier, Jérémie Guez
image : Romain Carcanade
son : Jérôme Chenevoy
montage : Tina Baz
musique : Olivia Merilahti
Production : Bruno Nahon, EuropaCorp
Distribution: Europacorp
Distribution: Europacorp
Samuel Jouy began his career as a stage actor, working with directors such as Irina Brook, Jacques Weber and Éric Ruf. He has also worked in television, on series such as Ainsi soient-ils (2012), and for cinema, in Un français (French Blood) (2015). In 2000, he directed a short film, Mortels. Sparring is his first feature.
“Sparring is not a film about the world of boxing. It is a film about the world of a boxer. It was not the ring which interested me the most, but what goes on outside it. Training, the pre-fight, the post-fight. The boxer's loneliness, his subconscious, his state of mind, his family life, how he gets up every morning and above all, why? But the real starting point for the writing of Sparring was the birth of my first child. At this period, my career as an actor was at a standstill and I spent my days in a boxing hall tiring myself out. One question obsessed me: what could I pass on as a father is my professional life is a failure? The writing Sparring was born from all these circumstances” (Samuel Jouy).
“Sparring is not a film about the world of boxing. It is a film about the world of a boxer. It was not the ring which interested me the most, but what goes on outside it. Training, the pre-fight, the post-fight. The boxer's loneliness, his subconscious, his state of mind, his family life, how he gets up every morning and above all, why? But the real starting point for the writing of Sparring was the birth of my first child. At this period, my career as an actor was at a standstill and I spent my days in a boxing hall tiring myself out. One question obsessed me: what could I pass on as a father is my professional life is a failure? The writing Sparring was born from all these circumstances” (Samuel Jouy).