2 secondes (1998)

Note Générale:

6,9/10   

Réalisateur:

Manon Briand

Scénariste:

Manon Briand (writer)

Date de sortie:

25 juin 2003 (France)

Genre:

Comedie | Drame | Romance

Intrigue:

Laurie, a professional downhill racer gets fired because of her slight overindulgence in irresponsibility...

Plot Keywords:

Bicycle | Downhill Racing | Lesbian | Wound | Obsession

Récompenses:

5 wins & 8 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

"You should learn to smile more often. I look at your lips, I forget about your hair."

Ensemble

Charlotte Laurier	...	Laurie
Dino Tavarone	...	Lorenzo
Jonathan Bolduc	...	Jeune Lorenzo
Suzanne Clément	...	La Bella
Yves Pelletier	...	Steff
Louise Forestier	...	Mere de Laurie
André Brassard	...	Gasket
Pascal Auclair	...	Lebland
JiCi Lauzon	...	Willie
France Galarneau	...	Marcia
Alexis Belec	...	Tom
Jude-Antoine Jarda	...	Grolo
Marie-Hélène Gagnon	...	Mme Blackburn
Ginette Boivin	...	Receptionniste #1
Mireille Naggar	...	Receptionniste #2
Sylvie Ferlatte	...	Receptionniste #3
Louise Deslières	...	Receptionniste #4
Roger Larue	...	Homme dans l'ascenieur
Denis Trudel	...	Acheteur
Gilbert Turp	...	Client Presse
Marco Valeriani	...	Jeune Italien
Maxim Gaudette	...	Ex-amant
Vicky Letourneau	...	Ex-amante
Carl Alacchi	...	Entraineur Italien
Sylvie Potvin	...	Serveuse snack-bar
Steve Belisle	...	Jeune Micano
Marie-Hélène Montpetit	...	Femme a la dicapotable
Arto Paragamian	...	Organisteur course messagers
Jean Desautels	...	Commentateur course chevaux
Allan Bishop	...	Commentateur course Mammoth
Bertrand Roy	...	Voix animateur tele
Stéphane Lefebvre	...	Coordinnateur de cascades et chauffeur
Michael Scherer	...	Cascade taxi #1
John Walsh	...	Cascade taxi #2
Nathalie Girard	...	Cascades Laurie
Marc Désourdy	...	Doubluer Lebland / Willie
Stephanie Gagnon	...	Pians supplementaires vile Laurie
John Pellegrino	...	Messager
Pascale Dion	...	Messager
Stephanie Demers-Langlois	...	Allison
Janine Theriault	...	Chris
Stephanie Morgenstern	...	Sugrun
Lorne Brass	...	Manager Team GT
Todd Toth	...	Assistant manager
Jessica Mackenzie	...	Jeune recrut
Mercedes Gonzáles	...	Doublure course

Réalisé par
Manon Briand

Scénaristes (dans l'ordre alphabétique)
Manon Briand		writer

Produit par
Roger Frappier	....	producer

Musique originale
Dominique Grand
Sylvain-Charles Grand

Image
Louise Archambault
Pierre Crépô
James Gray

Montage
Richard Comeau

Distribution des rôles
Lucie Robitaille

Direction artistique
Pierre Allard

Création des costumes
Suzanne Harel

Directeur de production
Karl Archambault	....	unit manager
Sylvie De Grandpré	....	production manager

Assistant réalisateur
Maïté Sarthou	....	assistant director

Technicien du son
Yvon Benoît	....	sound
Louis Hone	....	sound
Tchae Measroch	....	foley assistant
Martin Pinsonnault	....	sound
Marcel Pothier	....	supervising sound editor
Hans Peter Strobl	....	sound

Effets spéciaux
Martin Williams	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects
François Aubry	....	visual effects supervisor

Cascadeur
Stéphane Lefebvre	....	stunt coordinator

Caméra et Département Electrique
Martine Leclerc	....	focus puller
Michel St. Martin	....	grip

Département Costume et garde-Robe
Brunhilde Pradier	....	head dresser

Divers
Daniel Boudreau	....	production assistant
Luc Bouthillier	....	production assistant
Robert Gray	....	subtitler
Andrée Roy	....	production assistant (as Andree Roy)

Companies de production

• Cable Distribution Fund
• Canadian Government
• Max Films Productions
• Quebec Government
• Société Radio-Canada
• Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC)
• Téléfilm Canada

Distributeurs

• Epicentre Films
• France Film

Technicien des effets spéciaux

• Intrigue (special effects)

Autre(s) titre(s):

2 Seconds (USA)
Deux secondes (Canada: French title) (alternative spelling)

Durée:

100 min

Pays:

Canada

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Classification:

Singapore:R(A) (cut)

Lieux de tournage:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Société:

Cable Distribution Fund

"You should learn to smile more often. I look at your lips, I forget about your hair."

Laurie (Charlotte Laurier) is a downhill bike racer whose first grey hair is accompanied by a two-second hesitation at the start of a race that convinces her boss that, at twenty-eight, she is too old for the sport. "When bikers get old they start to think," he tells her as her imaginary self throttles the excitable young girl already drafted in to take her place. Laurie moves in with her brother and finds work as a bicycle courier so that she can continue riding her bike while earning enough to pay her share of the rent. She also meets Lorenzo (Dino Taverone), the gruff, unfriendly proprietor of a bicycle repair shop and a one-time road racer. At first they share an adversarial relationship, but eventually Lorenzo's heart begins to thaw and they enjoy a close friendship…

For such a slight story it is to 2 Seconds credit that it is quite an enjoyable time-filler, although it never manages to constantly hit that mix of humour and winning sentiment for which it so clearly strives. Manon Briand's quirky direction beguiles and annoys in equal measure as he sometimes struggles to find interesting ways to show people riding bikes, then hits imaginative heights with a housefly's POV shot of Laurie in the bath just before it fries itself on a light bulb. Much of the film comes across as a bunch of personal anecdotes from a real-life bicycle courier that have simply been thrown at the screen to see how they play, but this is OK because they add those little background details that are so often missing from movies. While some of the anecdotes are too lightweight, others work surprisingly well.

The gamine Laurier gives an engaging performance as Laurie, whose waif-like features belie an underlying strength of character that eventually wins over the blunt Lorenzo. Tavarone is also good, and the mismatched pair work surprisingly well together as their mutual enmity is gradually transformed into a warm friendship. His key reminiscence over the girl he let slip away has echoes of the 'girl in the white dress' story from Citizen Kane, but is a sweet tale that will touch a nerve with most people. The only major weak point of the film is the ending, which feels too rushed and unconvincing to evoke the emotional response it was obviously aiming for.