Vincent n'a pas d'écailles
Thomas Salvador
Vincent has an extraordinary power: his strength and reflexes are vastly increased when he comes into contact with water. To use this gift to the full he moves to an area with many of rivers and lakes, and which is sufficiently remote for him to live peacefully. During one of his aquatic outings he is surprised by Lucie and falls in love with her.
With : Thomas Salvador, Vimala Pons, Youssef Hajdi
Screenplay : Thomas Salvador, Thomas Cheysson, Thomas Bidegain
Image : Alexis Kavyrchine
Editing : Guillaume Saignol
Sound : Laurent Gabiot, Jean Mallet, Olivier DôHùu
Screenplay : Thomas Salvador, Thomas Cheysson, Thomas Bidegain
Image : Alexis Kavyrchine
Editing : Guillaume Saignol
Sound : Laurent Gabiot, Jean Mallet, Olivier DôHùu
Production : Christmas in July
Distribution: Le Pacte, Xavier Hirigoyen, Tél. : +33 (0)1 44 69 59 59 / Email : marketing@le-pacte.com
Distribution: Le Pacte, Xavier Hirigoyen, Tél. : +33 (0)1 44 69 59 59 / Email : marketing@le-pacte.com
Thomas Salvador made his first short in 1997, followed by five others in which he is the lead actor. His films (notably Petit Pas in 2003 and De sortie in 2006) won several awards and have been screened in retrospectives at various events. Alongside this he works as a stage manager and assistant director on a various films, runs video directing workshops for secondary school students, has taken part as a dancer in the performance Ici, cette fois-ciby Julie Desprairiesand has projects for documentaries, films and performance videos. In 2013 he started shooting Briques, an improvised film with a small crew, which he put on the back boiler to shoot his first feature Vincent n'a pas d'écailles.
"The came from an idea I had my head of a body gliding underwater in a very straight and shallow stream, the sort of place you would just paddle but where you would never think of swimming. This original image already had in it the idea of Vincent's unique difference and incongruity that can be found, for instance, when you swim at night or drift in a canal. Added to this was my fondness for working on the body and movement, and the idea of a man whose abilities are multiplied when he comes into contact with water soon seemed obvious. The hero of the film was to do extraordinary things!"
"The came from an idea I had my head of a body gliding underwater in a very straight and shallow stream, the sort of place you would just paddle but where you would never think of swimming. This original image already had in it the idea of Vincent's unique difference and incongruity that can be found, for instance, when you swim at night or drift in a canal. Added to this was my fondness for working on the body and movement, and the idea of a man whose abilities are multiplied when he comes into contact with water soon seemed obvious. The hero of the film was to do extraordinary things!"