Bon vent Claude Goretta

Switzerland, August 2011
FILM, Documentary, 58 min.

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directed by
Lionel Baier
Written by
Lionel Baier
Status
In distribution

Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a “travelling companion”, to adapt Serge Daney’s expression. He feels it is definitive proof that a Swiss can be deeply Chekhovian. The young filmmaker goes to Geneva to ask his elder how he achieved the whoosh of water effect in the film, why attention to detail matters so much, and how to film great actors such as François Simon. This encounter with Claude Goretta – but also with Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Michel Robin and Frédérique Meininger – leads one of the greatest of Swiss filmmakers to open up about his work.

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World Premiere
August 2011
Original Version
French,  colour und s/w, Digi Beta, 58 min.
Production
Bande à part Films, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Producer
Agnieszka Ramu
directed by
Lionel Baier
Written by
Lionel Baier
Cinemato­graphy
Bastien Bösiger
Editing
Pauline Gaillard
Sound Editing
Raphaël Sohier
Re-Recording Mix
Stéphane Thiébaut
Location Sound Mix
Vincent Kappeler

Cast

Adrien Barazzone
Elodie Weber
Cédric Leproust
Claude Goretta
Nathalie Baye
Isabelle Huppert
Frédérique Meininger

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