The Team-member

the Team-member is a Film French of Philippe Lioret carried out in 2004.

Synopsis

Camille returns in Brittany to sell the house of family, located on the island of Ushant. Purchasers come from Paris present themselves, it has appointment the following day, in the notary with Brest. Having decided to spend a last night in the house of its childhood, it finds a book which tells an upsetting history, to which are mixed her parents, a foreigner and the islanders.

In 1963, his/her Yvon father Guen is chief warden with the Phare of the Mare and its mother employed in a canning facility. Arrive on the island Antoine Cassendi, wounded during the Guerre of Algeria, it is sent by the administration to make team with Yvon, after having followed a formation to Brest. Originating in Touraine, it is badly accepted by the population, the more so as its station is coveted by the son of another guard. Whereas the two men learn how to cohabit and to know each other, a strong attraction settles between the newcomer and Mabé Guen. Completely rejected, Antoine from goes away.

On the boat which brings back it towards the continent, Camille decides to preserve the house and cancels the appointment with the notary.

Data sheet

Realization: Philippe Lioret
Assistant realizer: Olivier Coutard
Scenario: Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol and Christian Sinniger
Production: North-western Production, France 2 Cinema, StudioCanal.
Producing: Christophe Rossignon
Artistic director: Yves Brover
Assembly: Mireille Leroy
Photography: Patrick Blossier
Sound: Jean-Marie Blondel, German Boulay and Eric Tisserand
Music: Nicola Piovani
Costumes: Pierre Bechir
Kind: Dramatic comedy
original Title: The Team-member/Country: France
Lasted: 94 minutes
Distribution: March Distribution
Left: the November 3rd 2004
2004 with the cinema

Distribution

Grégori Dérangère : Antoine Cassendi
Philippe Torreton: Yvon Guen
Sandrine Bonnaire: Mabé Guen
Emilie Dequenne: Brigitte
Anne Consigny: Camille
Martine Sarcey: Jeanne (old)
Nathalie Besancon: Jeanne
Jean Sénéjoux: Remi
Thierry Lavat: Tinou
Eric Bonicatto: OJ
Beatrice Laout: Nicole
Christophe Kourotchkine: Lebras
Bernard Mazzinghi: Andre
Christophe Rossignon: the fireman
Nadia Barentin: Huberte
Emmanuel Courcol : the priest
Gilles Masson: Jean-Pierre Menguy
Alain Legodec: owner of the Velléda

Places of the action

Sea of Iroise
Island of Ushant
Headlight of the Mare
decoration of the head of the headlight of the Mare close to the Headlight of the point of Corsen

Comments

It is the too known history of the rejection from abroad (Antoine Cassendi is originating in Touraine), by a community folded up on itself, all the more oppressive feeling as it is of an insular company and a work place, a headlight on the open sea, that one calls the Enfer . A foreigner who takes the place, a foreigner which wants to learn, somebody who disturbs the life of an small group. Only, Mabé Guen will accept it for a short pressure, before it leaves Ushant definitively.

The film is a beautiful partition for the actors, Sandrine Bonnaire is a little in withdrawal to leave it face to face Derangère/Torreton, to occupy the foreground. The island and the headlight do not have nothing to do with universe effectively returned by Philippe Lioret.

A " distraction" show sometimes Antoine with the bandaged right hand whereas its wounded hand is generally the left.

The scenario takes again the history which Sandrine Bonnaire in Miss tells, that Philippe Lioret put in scene 3 years before.

Distinctions

the Team-member obtained 3 nominations with the Césars:

better actor for Philippe Torreton
better music for Nicola Piovanni
female best supporting role for Emilie Dequenne

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