Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
Sous les toits de Paris
France
2007
98 Min
Color
1.85:1
French
Synopsis
Barbes, Paris. Therese is a shy, well-preserved woman in her sixties and she is in love. She walks along the street, not looking at anything in particular but instead muses in thought. She is on her way to see Marcel, the man she has loved for years. Marcel is a handsome man despite his eighty years. Wearing shorts, he sits, as he does every Monday, at the side of the municipal swimming pool with his best friend Amar. But the two men are not here for physical exercise. They come once a week because their attic room on the 6th floor is unbearably hot. From behind the bar at the pool, Therese observes them. Once a week, she serves the duo her finest dishes. Despite the number of years she has been in love, Therese still melts at Marcel’s gaze. –Inbaseline
Director
Hiner Saleem
Huner Saleem(Kurdish: هونهر سالهم), also transliterated as Huner Salim, (born 9 March 1964), is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah (Akre) in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now. In 1992, after the First Gulf War, he filmed undercover the living conditions of Iraqi Kurds. This footage was shown at the Venice Film Festival. In 1998, he made his first movie, Vive la mariée… et la libération du Kurdistan. His second, Passeurs de rêves, came out in 2000, and his third film, Vodka Lemon, released in 2003, won the San Marco Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He wrote and directed all three. He was honored with the prestigious title Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in 2005. His memoirs titled My Father’s Rifle has been published in French, English and Greek .—Wikipedia… read more
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