paris Soundwalks
FRANCE - PARIS - belleville with florence loiret-caille
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Florence Loiret-Caille has not heard from her lover for days. His name is Spleen, and he is a bohemian musician. He has disappeared without leaving a lead. Florence takes us through her neighborhood of Belleville looking for Spleen. Belleville is the last bastion of the working-class and culturally diverse Paris. Tracing the steps of workers’ strikes, Florence shows us Jewish Tunisian cafés, mosques, old industrial alleys, and shadows of the 1870 Commune... In the old neighborhood of Edith Piaf it is not always “la vie en rose,” and everyone knows that the boundary between love and despair is fine. Original soundtrack composed by Spleen. With the participation of John One, Marco Prince, Ulisse Gnesda, Maurice Arnoult, Sarah Schmitt...Narrator Biography
After spending her childhood in Indonesia, Florence Loiret-Caille started her acting career in France. She has been in films by Michael Haneke (The Time of the Wolf, 2003), Claire Denis (Trouble Every Day, 2001), Zabou Breitman (Someone I Loved, 2009), Agnès Jaoui, Jérôme Bonnell...
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FRANCE - PARIS - le marais with isild le besco
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Isild Le Besco has lost her walkman, a vintage object that she cherishes and contains a recording of a song she has to perform at an audition. With only a few hours until her audition, Isild takes us for a crazy race around Le Marais in search of her tape. No efforts are spared and every door is opened: from the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood to the gay sex-shop, from theaters and cafés to her own mother’s apartment door. Isild takes us from rue Vieille du Temple to Place des Vosges, across secret courtyards and hip bars. Original soundtrack composed by Fred Avril. With the participation of Anémone, Mark Goodman, Christian Gros, Marie-Caroline Burnat, Xavier Denamur, Antoine Dumézi, Yann Guérin...Narrator Biography
Her personality is as unusual as her Algerian and Vietnamese origins. This young actress, director, and producer has been nominated to the Cesars (the French Oscars) twice, and received the Marcello Mastroianni award for best actress at Venice’s Mostra in 2006, for her role in The Untouchable by Benoît Jacquot. As Jacquot’s muse, Isild Le Besco has played in five of his movies. She also directed three films: Demi-Tarif (2004), Charly (2007) and Les bas-fonds (2009).
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FRANCE - PARIS - palais royal with hélène fillières
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Hélène Fillières invites us to a sound reverie whose main inspiration is Last Year in Marienbad (1961 French New Wave movie by Alain Resnais), where the sense of reality is blurred by the sound of sonatas by Scriabine. Hélène invites us to travel through time under the arcades of Palais Royal, following the path of Colette, Cocteau, Gide and Restif de La Bretonne... From Galerie Vivienne to Galerie Véro-Dodat, she takes us to a tour in a world inhabited by old stringed-instrument makers, antique dealers, booksellers and other witnesses of an elegance from the past. Interviews of Serge Plantureux, François Jousseaume, Didier Ludot, François Charle...Narrator Biography
After spending her childhood between Europe, Brazil and United States, Hélène Fillières started acting in the movies of her elder sister, Sophie Fillières. Sometime model and translator of American poetry (she translated many poems from Dorothy Parker), she has shown her elegant figure in movies by Tonie Marshall (Au plus près du paradis, 2002), Jacques Doillon, Cédric Klapisch, Pascale Ferran (Lady Chatterley, 2006)... and in the TV program Mafiosa where she plays a Corsican mafia boss. Hélène often supports first movies and young directors.
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FRANCE - PARIS - pigalle with lou doillon
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Warning! For adults only... With her sultry voice, Lou Doillon drags you into an erotic drift. Like a night butterfly, she leads you to the neon lights, through the lustful neighborhood of Paris, Pigalle. Dark streets, underground bars with prostitutes and transvestites, old cabarets... Lou teases your inner fantasies. Every step you make, you become less innocent... Original soundtrack composed by Sir Alice. With the participation of Frédéric Taddeï, Violaine Gilibert, Momo, Antonin Verrier, Michou.Narrator Biography
The daughter of director Jacques Doillon and actress & singer Jane Birkin, Lou Doillon naturally became an actress. The public discovered her in 1987 in Agnès Varda’s film Kung-Fu Master. She has been in her father’s films as well as in those of international directors, such as Abel Ferrara (Go Go Tales, 2006). Lou also has a career in fashion as a model (former cover girl of Givenchy) and as a designer for several collections for the jeans brand, Lee Cooper.
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FRANCE - PARIS - st germain des prés with virginie ledoyen
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Virginie Ledoyen is sitting at the Café de Flore. A man passes by her. She feels attracted to him, and decides to follow him across Saint-Germain-des-Prés, taking us for a walk around this mythical Paris neighborhood, whose streets are still haunted by the ghosts of Picasso, Apollinaire, Sartre and Beauvoir, Oscar Wilde... She follows the stranger at a distance, loses track of him, and finds him again... playing cat and mouse between the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the National Academy of Fine Arts, between secret courtyards and art galleries. The stranger is Benjamin Biolay, who composed the soundtrack of this poetic and mysterious Soundwalk.Narrator Biography
An icon of French cinema, former model for L’Oréal, Virginie Ledoyen started her acting career at age 3: ads, music videos, movies with Marcello Mastroianni and Michel Piccoli... At a very young age, she became one of the muses of auteur cinema, inspiring directos like Olivier Assayas, Claude Chabrol, Benoît Jacquot, François Ozon... Her collaborations with Edward Yang (Mahjong, 1996), Danny Boyle (La Plage, 2000), or James Ivory (La fille d’un soldat ne pleure jamais, 1998), have given her a career an international dimension.
