Through the Forest

À travers la forêt

France

2005

65 Min

Color

2.35:1

French

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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CAST Camille Berthomier, Aurélien Wiik, Morgane Hainaux, Alice Dubuisson, Mireille Roussel, Aurélien Deseez, Valérie Crunchant, Jason Ciarapica

MUSIC Camille Berthomier, Charles Ives, Julien Manaud, John Cale

SOUND Stéphane Thiébaut, François Méreu

New York, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), London (Film on the Square), Mar del Plata (Out of Competition), BAFICI (Retrospective), Melbourne (International Panorama)

Synopsis

After the death of Renaud, her boyfriend, Armelle can’t possibly take him out of her mind. Her sister advises her to see a medium, in whose house she meets a boy who strangely looks like Renaud.

Director

Jean-Paul Civeyrac (born 24 December 1964) is a French New Wave director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors’ bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises (2003). This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003. Jean-Paul Civeyrac is professor at the French school, La Femis, and graduated from the University Lyon III (philosophy). His movie À travers la forêt was presented at Festival Paris Cinéma (2 July 2005) and at Toronto International Film Festival 2005 September. —Wikipedia