Mouton
Sheep
Marianne Pistone, Gilles Deroo – France 2012 – 100 min.
B+E: Marianne Pistone, Gilles Deroo – COP: Eric Alirol – S: Jérémy Morelle, Adrien Fontaine – P: Boule de Suif
With David Merabet, Michael Mormentyn, Cindy Dumont u.a.
35mm – französisch
Deutsche Erstaufführung
Bester Debütfilm, Locarno 2013
Aurélien, known as Mouton (Sheep), works in the kitchen of the local fish restaurant in the little town of Courseulles-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast. In the first part, we get to know him as a cheerful seventeen-year-old with a simple life, loved by those who take the trouble to get to know him.
Until, halfway through the film, he disappears after a bizarre accident with a chainsaw. The focus then shifts to the people left behind, who miss Mouton. Like the viewer, they had grown greatly attached to the uncomplicated young man.
For their highly original debut, the two directors spent a long time among the inhabitants of Courseulles-sur-Mer, which outside of the summer season evokes a melancholy that only seems to bring the locals closer together. They found their actors mainly through chance encounters, and this increases the natural feel of this film, packed with small gestures. – IFF Rotterdam
Saturday 11/10 9.30 p.m. Werkstattkino – Guest: Gilles Deroo
Wang Bing, born in 1967 in Xi’an, China. He graduated from the Film Academy in Beijing in 1996. He made the 18-episode TV series Campus Affairs and the TV documentary Common People's Homestead. In 1999, he was cameraman for the film Distortion. His debut as a director came with Tiexi District: West of the Tracks, a nine-hour documentary in three parts entitled Rust, Remnants and Rails. He makes installations as well, such as Crude Oil (2008), also shown at UNDERDOX.
Films (selection): Tie Xi Qu (Tiexi District: West of the Tracks) 2003 – He Fengming (Fengming, a Chinese Memoir) 2007 (3. UX) – L'argent du charbon (Coal Money) 2008 (4. UX) – Cai you ri ji (Crude Oil) 2008 (4. UX)