Le quatrième morceau de la femme coupée en trois (2007)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.4/10   

Réalisateur:

Laure Marsac

Scénariste:

Laure Marsac (writer)

Release Date:

7 mars 2007 (France)

Genre:

Drame

Plot Keywords:

Parking | Subtitled | Mother Daughter Relationship | Car Driving | Nonlinear Timeline

Avis des utilisateurs:

More than the sum of its parts

Ensemble

Laure Marsac	...	Louise Coleman
Denis Podalydès	...	Dominique
Claire Borotra	...	La mère
Alexia Stresi	...	L'amie
Justine Gallou	...	Louise enfant
Gisèle Casadesus	...	La vieille dame
Ivan Taieb	...	Mathieu
Emmanuelle Lepoutre	...	La caissière de la cafétéria
Lily Taieb	...	Aurore
Grégoire Auclerc-Galland	...	Le jeune homme
Julie Leibowitch	...	La dame de l'auto-école

Réalisé par
Laure Marsac

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Laure Marsac		writer

Produit par
Ivan Taieb	....	producer

Musique originale
Grégoire Auclerc-Galland

Image
Nicolas Le Forestier

Montage
Audrey Maurion

Distribution des rôles
Dominique Vinant

Création des costumes
Elena Raggi
Nena Woreth

Maquillage
Christian Gruau	....	key hair stylist
Marie Lastennet	....	key makeup artist (as Marie Lastenet)

Directeur de production
Aymeric Boutard	....	assistant unit manager
Anne Farrer	....	assistant unit manager
Jean-Marc Gullino	....	unit production manager
Christelle Marty	....	unit production manager
Stephanie Micco	....	assistant unit manager
Eric Nebot	....	assistant production manager
Benoît Pilot	....	production manager
Arnaud Wyrzykowski	....	assistant production manager

Assistant réalisateur
Carlo Da Fonseca Parsotam	....	first assistant director
Raphaël De Vellis	....	assistant director
Delphine Lamarche	....	assistant director
Célia Lévi	....	assistant director

Technicien du son
Damien Berger	....	boom operator
Emmanuel Croset	....	sound mixer
Xavier Dreyfuss	....	sound editor
Xavier Dreyfuss	....	sound
Daniel Gries	....	foley artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Sarah Bensaïd	....	assistant camera
Edwin Broyer	....	key grip
Vincent Buron	....	assistant camera
Ludovic Colbeau-Justin	....	additional cinematographer
Christophe Duroyaume	....	grip
Philippe Hohndorf	....	still photographer
Joël Ravon	....	grip
Fabien Veillas	....	grip

Casting Department
Paul Louisor	....	casting assistant
Olivia Seigneurgens	....	casting assistant

Editorial Department
Jimmy Christophe	....	color timer
Coralie Van Rietschoten	....	assistant editor

Transportation Department
Olivier Suffert	....	picture car

Divers
Gilles Cappelletto	....	travelling car
Stephanie Micco	....	location manager runner
Eric Nebot	....	production coordinator
Isabelle Ribis	....	script supervisor
Alysa Sun	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• La Caméra Deluxe
• France 2 Cinéma (co-production)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)
• TPS Star (participation)
• TV5 Monde (participation)
• Conseil Régional du Centre (with the support of)
• Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma (with the support of)

Distributors

• Les Films du Paradoxe (2007) (France) (theatrical)
• Les Films du Paradoxe (2008) (France) (DVD)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Le 4ème morceau de la femme coupée en trois (France) (alternative spelling)

Durée:

France:70 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

Company:

La Caméra Deluxe

More than the sum of its parts

The first feature film by actress-turned-director Laure Marsac, 'Le quatrième morceau de la femme coupée en trois' ("The Fourth Piece of a Woman Cut in Three") is divided, as the title suggests, into three parts. Each of the sections give the first-time director a different subject, theme and treatment to work with and demonstrate her ability. The first section shows Louise (Laure Marsac) learning to drive with a particularly grouchy driving instructor (Denis Podalydès). The second piece shows her having passed her test getting stuck in the car park of an out-of-town shopping centre. Evoked by her experiences of wanting to drive, the third part of the film is a memory of a significant car journey she undertook with her mother as a young child.

As the title also suggests, the connections between each of the three sections of the film give light to a fourth part, an unspoken element never made explicit, that suggests complex reasons for Louise's desire to drive and be independent. Marsac manages to evoke memories and sentiments as a strong, formative influence through light, music and contemplation in a manner that recalls Sofia Coppola's expert working with mood in 'The Virgin Suicides' and succeeds in elevating the film from the mundanity of its seemingly commonplace situations.

As well as demonstrating strong technical, structural and writing skills as a first-time director, Marsac also shows that, like Eric Rohmer, she is capable of drawing subtle resonances from the mundane and the ordinary aspects of life from a uniquely female perspective (the director refers to this accordingly as the "perfume" of the film). The sentiments evoked by 'Le quatrième morceau de la femme coupée en trois' are certainly minor, but expertly achieved, they show no small amount of talent.