21º Mostra Internacional de Cinema Competition New Filmakers
ALORS, VIOLÁ

France   

Alors, VioláConstantin has three children, three families, and several grandchildren. The oldest is a long-distance truck driver, the second an accountant, and the youngest, a plumber who is in hospital after attempted suicide.

A pitiless patriarch, Constantin keeps his descendants under constant vigilance. The three children live in identical apartments in the same buildings. Constantin, in turn, lives in a railway carriage, to confirm his eccentricity. He lives from shady work and deals: a truck is his business, a shop his storehouse, and his grandchildren his accomplices. The relationship of Constantin with the three families is violent, fond, brutal, tender, a jig-saw divided between silence and fury. They live in a world where all is possible. Constantin and his grandchildren go out at at night on petty theft raids, a couple makes love on a bed on display in a furniture store, and presents are wrapped in fine multicolored paper. A universe where their crazy desire make all magic.
 

     Director

DIRECTOR: Michel Piccoli
SCREENPLAY: Michel Piccoli, Thomas Cheysson
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Laurent Machuel
EDITION: Emmanuelle Castro
MUSIC: Arno
CAST: Maurice Garrel, Dominique Blanc, Arno, Roland Amstutz, Bernard Bloch, Pascal Elso, Michèle Gleizer
PRODUCER: Paulo Branco
FESTIVALS: Veneza
PRODUCTION: Gemini Films, 73, rue Saint Denis - 75001 - Paris Tel.: 00 33 1 4039-0375 Fax: 00 33 1 4233-1213
WORLD SALES: Gemini Films, 73, rue Saint Denis - 75001 - Paris Tel.: 00 33 1 4039-0375 Fax: 00 33 1 4233-1213
ORIGINAL TITLE: Alors, Voilà
     Col., 93 min., 1997

Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli was born in Paris in 1925. Since he first began in cinema in 1944, he has worked in 135 films: La Mort en Ce Jardin, La Belle de Jour, Le Charme Discret de La Bourgeoisie, all by Buñuel, Le Mépris, by Jean-Luc Godard; The Party, by Manoel de Oliveira, selection from the Twentieth São Paulo International Film Festival, Généalogies d'un Crime, by Raoul Ruiz, selected for the Twenty-First São Paulo International Film Festival, among many others. Alors, Voilá marks his début in directing.