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sat 19 nov 10:00 pm Caligari FilmBühne
VANITY France/Switzerland 2015 75 min French original version with English subtitles Script: Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux, DoP: Patrick Lindenmaier, Editor: Jean-Christophe Hym, Production: Bande à Part Films, Les Films du Poisson, Producers: Estelle Fialon, Frédéric Mermoud, Agnieszka Ramu, Cast: Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgiev David Miller is ill and has decided to end it all. Despite his best efforts to choose the perfect place, date and method, nothing works out as planned. All of those who said they would be at his side, back out. David Miller has no choice but to rely on the help of Esperenza, from the euthanasia and assisted suicide association, and Tréplev, the young male prostitute next door, to embark on this final journey. "Director Lionel Baier (…) has made a movie about suicide that is simultaneously funny, poignant, and heartbreaking. Quirky without veering into kitsch, and stocked with characters that are both unique and familiar (…) Baier does masterful work pulling the audience in, and taking them through the full, completely realized arcs of those involved." (Scene Stealers) Biography: Lionel Baier, born in Lausanne in 1975, studied Literature at the Faculty of the Arts at Lausanne University from 1995 to 1998. Since 2002, he has been in charge of the Film Department of the Lausanne Cantonal Art School (ECAL). In |
2009, he founded Bande à Part Films together with filmmakers Ursula Meier, Frédéric Mermoud and Jean-Stéphane Bron. Furthermore, he is now the Vice Chairman of the Foundation Board of the Swiss Film Archive and also a committee member of the Visions du Réel International Film Festival in Nyon, and of Suissimage, the agency in charge of distributing royalties.
Filmography (selection): 2002 THE PARADE (OUR HISTORY), 2004 STUPID BOY, 2008 ANOTHER MAN, 2013 LONGWAVE, 2015 VANITY Awards: Swiss Film Award in the Category "Best Actor" for Patrick Lapp and in the Category "Best Performance in a Supporting Role" for Ivan Georgiev (Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern/Switzerland 2016) www.widemanagement.com/la-vanite Contact: |
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