The Man Without a Head

L'homme sans tête

France

2003

18 Min

Color

2.35:1

French

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Annie Dautane, Aton Soumache, Juan Diego Solanas

CAST Alain Hocine, Ambre Boukebza, Laurent Bert, Laurent Casanova, Salah Teskouk, Lucie Jeanne, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Stephane Botti, Evelyne Chartier

SOUND Franck Marchal, Frédérik Bobilier, Juan Diego Solanas

Cannes (Short Films): Jury Prize

Synopsis

Phelps, a solitary man who lives in a big industrial city by the sea, is very happy tonight. He is getting ready for a ball. And not any ball, a dance to which the young woman he loves has agreed to come. Tonight he will declare his flame and and it makes him feel like dancing… But there is something wrong with Phelps, at least in his own “eyes”: he does not have a head! That is why he sets out to buy a head that suits him to please his lady. —IMDb

Director

Juan Diego Solanas

Born in Buenos Aires on November 4th 1966, Juan Diego Solanas is the son of one of Argentina’s most important directors, Fernando E. Solanas. In 1977, he followed his father to France when the latter fled his country where dictatorship was rife. There, he studied art history and gave free rein to his passion: photography. He became assistant to Felix Monti, his father’s cinematographer, before becoming his cinematographer himself for “La Nube” (1998). After directing a lot of commercials he made his first short, “L’homme sans tête”, in 2001, and his first feature length movie “Nordeste”, in 2005. —IMDb