- EN VILLE - IRIS IN BLOOM: FILM CLIPS (VO): " Mains Froides" - " Sans Espoir" - " Questionnaire Proust" -
EN VILLE Iris in Bloom Valérie Mréjen, Bertrand Schefer First film / World premiere Feature film / France / 1h15 / couleur / color / Directors' Fortnight 2011 Iris is 16 and finishing up her teenage years a small provincial town when she meets Jean, a 40 year old photographer from Paris. Over the course of their meetings, their relationship evolves to an amorous friendship that will turn their lives upside down. ******* Iris, seize ans, vit la fin de son adolescence dans une petite ville de province lorsqu'elle rencontre par hasard Jean, un photographe parisien d'une quarantaine d'années. Au fil des rendez-vous, leur relation se transforme en une amitié amoureuse qui bouleverse leurs vies. v.o français scénario Valérie Mréjen, Bertrand Schefer image Claire Mathon son Philippe Deschamps décor Aurore Casalis montage Thomas Marchand musique Jean Claude Vannier interprétation Lola Creton, Stanislas Merhar, Adèle Haenel, Valérie Donzelli, Ferdinand Régent, Barthélémy Guillemard 75 minutes – 35 mm – 1,85 – Dolby SR – France – 2011 “Victor Hugo says: ‘The grass must grow and children die.’ I say that the cruel law of art is that beings die and that we ourselves must die after we have exhausted suffering so that the grass, not of oblivion but of eternal life, should grow, fertilized by works upon which generations to come will gaily picnic without care of those who sleep beneath it…” Proust, Time Regained. ******* “Victor Hugo dit : « Il faut que l’herbe pousse et que les enfants meurent ». Moi je dis que la loi cruelle de l’art est que les êtres meurent et que nous-mêmes mourions en épuisant toutes les souffrances, pour que pousse l’herbe non de l’oubli, mais de la vie éternelle, l’herbe drue des oeuvres fécondes, sur laquelle les générations viendront faire gaiement, sans souci de ceux qui dorment en-dessous, leur déjeuner sur l’herbe.” Proust, Le Temps retrouvé. VALÉRIE MRÉJEN Valérie Mréjen was born in Paris in 1969. A visual artist by trade, she has made a series of videos and several short films (La Défaite du Rouge-Gorge, 2001; Chamonix, 2003; French Courvoisier, 2009). In 2008, the Jeu de Paume presented a solo exhibition of her work. Her first documentary, Pork and Milk, was released in theaters in 2004. Her second, Valvert, was released in 2010. She has published three books with Allia, Mon Grand-père (1999), L’Agrume (2001) and Eau Sauvage (2004). In autumn 2010 she and Bertrand Schefer were artists in residence at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, Japan. Iris in Bloom is her first feature film. BERTRAND SCHEFER Bertrand Schefer was born in Paris in 1972. After studying philosophy, he translated and edited texts from the Italian Renaissance on the origins of visual arts and works by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Giacomo Leopardi. He has been a reader for Arte’s fiction department, collaborated on several screenplays and published a first novel, L’Âge d’or, with Allia. He was a writer in residence at the Villa Medici in 2009-2010, then at the Villa Kujoyama, in Kyoto, Japan, in 2010. He and Valérie Mréjen are currently doing post-production on a documentary about Shibuya Girls, which they filmed in Tokyo. Iris in Bloom is his first feature film. Cover photo © Jean-Baptiste Germain / Aurora Films