Franssou Prenant Movies
- 1999
Editor Franssou Prenant made her directorial debut with this drama, which she also co-wrote and appears in, in a supporting role. Two women, angry Myope and happy Lunette (both played by Franssou Prenant), bounce ideas off each other in a small apartment, until Lunette fashions a story about Agathe (Cecile Garcia Fogel) and her husband Pierrot (Manuel Cedron), a one-time musician who now teaches gym. While the two love each other, they cannot communicate without quarreling. Prenant shot the story of the couple in 16mm, while the framing segments of the two women were filmed in Super 8mm. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Manuel Cedron, Cecile Garcia-Fogel, (more)
- 1993
This entire film is an attempt by the filmmaker Romain Groupil to answer a (fictional?) letter from a former girlfriend, who has asked him when (if ever) he will make a good film. His response to this is to travel to places in Europe and the Mediterranean, as if to say "there are so many more important and painful things going on in the world, how can it matter whether or not I make any kind of film, much less a good one?" On the Gaza strip, he witnesses a confrontation between Palestinian youths wielding stones against a group of heavily armed Israeli soldiers. In Sarajevo, he follows a Serbian actress who is disturbed by the war in Bosnia, until she irritatedly shoos him off. Then he speaks to a fellow filmmaker in that city, who mourns the destruction of the multiculral society of his home. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Franssou Prenant, Romain Goupil, (more)
