1999 Madeleine

Plot

1999 Madeleine is the first step in an ambitious project by the French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik to make one film per year between 1999-2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. Episode one is about Madeline, a lonely woman obsessed by religion and cleanliness. Her solitary existence leads her to place an advertisement for a man willing to share his life with a 'single, working 35-year-old.' She is a woman of our times who is caught between the paradoxes of modern life and individual needs for communication. The world offers her opportunities to satisfy material needs but, unfortunately, this is to the detriment of her spiritual needs. Madeleine received the 1st prize of the Young Jury (UBS) at the 1999 Locarno International Film Festival, and Vera Briole was awarded a Bronze Leopard as Best Actress. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Rovi

Cast

• Vera Briole
• Manuel Blanc
• Anouk Aimée
• Jean-Michel Fête
• Jean-François Gallotte

Credit

Laurent Bouhnik - Director, Clemence Lafarge - Editor, Etienne Comar - Executive Producer, Jean Cottin - Executive Producer, Jerome Coullet - Composer (Music Score), Gilles Henry - Cinematographer, Paolo de Jesus - Sound/Sound Designer, Laurent Bouhnik - Screenwriter

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