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QU’UN SEUL TIENNE ET LES AUTRES SUIVRONT - SILENT VOICES
France - 2009, 120’, HD, colour - World Premiere (Debut Film)
directed by Léa Fehner
screenplay Léa Fehner
cinematography Jean-Louis Vialard
editing Julien Chigot
sound Julien Sicart
art direction Pauline Bourdon
costumes Chantal Castelli
cast
Farida Rahouadj (Zorah)
Reda Kateb (Stéphane)
Pauline Etienne (Laure)
Marc Barbé (Pierre)
Julien Lucas (Antoine)
Vincent Rottiers (Alexandre)
Delphine Chuillot (Céline)
Dinara Droukarova (Elsa)
producers Jean-Michel Rey, Philippe Liégeois
production
Rezo
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press office
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synopsis
Zorah, an elderly Algerian woman, wants to meet her son’s murderer. Laure, a sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum, needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. Stéphane, a young medical supplies delivery man, is offered a deal to take the place of a gangster inmate so that the latter may escape. Two women, one man, three destinies that come together in the visiting room of a prison.
Qu’un seul tienne et les autre suiverontis the first feature by Léa Fehner. Despite her young age and the complex challenge of portraying not just one but a series of characters, the film is mature both in its craftsmanship and storytelling. With each one having a different agenda and stake, the characters are brought to life with great compassion by their auteur and the remarkable performances of the actors. Their sorrows and struggles in turn provide a vivid place for the audience to feel and to reflect upon issues no less complex than love, grief and destiny. The beginning scene says it all: life is a stage of random encounters where chance and social conditions make up most of the decor. An anonymous crowd standing in line before a prison, waiting to visit their loved ones. Anonymous though they may be, their lives are in no way deprived of meaning. Nor is what lies before them, in the trajectories of life, predictable and assessable. Under a low grim sky, Zorah has come to seek an answer to her son’s brutal death. Laure, a naïve 16-year-old is here to pay her last visit to Alexandre, as well as her dues to the bittersweet experience of first love; while Stéphane too is standing anxiously and nervously in line, determined to brave the law for a better tomorrow. The story takes off from a point where the paths of some strangers cross for no reason. Surprisingly, it also ends at a point where the paths of those same characters – no longer strangers to us – do not cross either. Instead, they collide in time and space, in emotion among them, and with us.
Chinlin Hsieh
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