Nights of full moon

the Nights of the full moon is a French film carried out by Eric Rohmer, left the August 29th 1984.

Synopsis

Louise , which is detached little by little from Remi , decides to rent a studio to test its new freedom. During all film, Louise " joue" dangerously with the feelings of those which it allures. His/her companion is the first has to suffer from it. She will be taken with her clean " jeu" the day when Remi will discover the " of it; Clé" …

Comments

This fourth film of the series “Comedies and Proverbs” begin with the Russian proverb which it illustrates: “Which has two women loses its heart, which has two houses loses its reason” . This film is one of the prototypes of the Cinéma of Rohmer: in a light and funny form, it delivers to a lucid analysis on freedom in a couple, on the chance, humanity and the animality as well as supposed influence of the nights of full moon on the human instincts…

Data sheet

Title: Nights of the full moon
Realization: Eric Rohmer
Scenario: Eric Rohmer
Production: Margaret Ménégoz
Production companies: Films of the Rhombus and the Films ARIANE
Music: Jacno and Elli Medeiros
Photography: Renato Berta
Assembly: Cecile Decugis
Decorations and costumes: Pascale Ogier
Country of origin: France
Format: Colors - 1,37:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: Drama
Lasted: 100 minutes
Coming out date: August 29th 1984 (France)

Distribution

Pascale Ogier: Louise
Tchéky Karyo: Remi
Fabrice Luchini: Octave
Virginia Thévenet: Camille
Christian Vadim: Bastien
László Szabó : the painter of the coffee
LISA Garneri: Tina, the baby-sitter'

Mathieu Schiffman: the friend decorator of Louise

Anne-Severine Liotard: Marianne

Herve Grandsart: Bertrand , the friend of Remi

Around film

the Nights of the full moon is the 4th shutter of the cycle of the Comédies and Proverbes initiated in 1981. The three preceding achievements of Eric Rohmer are the Woman of the aviator (1981), the Good match (1982) and Pauline with the beach (1983). the green Ray in 1986 and finally, the Friend of my friend in 1987, will follow the Nights of the full moon .

In addition to its role of Louise, Pascale Ogier also dealt of the decorations and the costumes of film.

Pascale Ogier faithful to Eric Rohmer:

It is in 1978, time to which she studies at the university of Paris III, that Pascale Ogier, girl of Ogier Bubble, makes the meeting of Eric Rohmer. This last offers to a secondary role in its film Perceval choral society the Welshman to him. The realizer and the young actress collaborate again in 1980 for the needs for the telefilm Catherine de Heilbronn, where Pascale Ogier interprets the character the main thing. The career of this one will end brutally on October 25th, 1984, the actress, 26 years old, dying prematurely of an heart attack in Paris.

4th collaboration Rohmer/Luchini:

Nights of the full moon mark the fourth collaboration of Fabrice Luchini with the realizer who made it begin, Eric Rohmer. The two men had before worked together on the Knee of Claire (1970), Perceval the Welshman (1978) and the Woman of the aviator (1980).

Laszlo Szabo with casting:

To note an appearance wink of Laszlo Szabo, an actor fetish of the New wave which played in particular in the Cousins (1959) of Claude Chabrol and Vivre its life (1962) of Jean-Luc Godard.

Pascale Ogier for the decorations and the costumes:

Not satisfies to appear in film, Pascale Ogier in also worked out the costumes and the decorations .

Jacno and Medeiros with the music:

The music of film is signed Jacno and Elli Medeiros. The first in particular composed the musical topic of Lulu, drama in which played Elli Medeiros, while the second also worked on the music of All bathes! in 1999.

Distinctions

Price of the best actress (Pascale Ogier), at the time of the Mostra of Venice 1984.
Nominations with the Césars of the better film , better realizer , better scenario , better actress (Pascale Ogier) and male best supporting role (Fabrice Luchini) in 1985.

External bond

Nights of the full moon on Internet Movie Database

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