Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Fr/1990/8mins/35mm/b&w
Actor-writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz is one of
the leading filmmakers to emerge from France in
the last ten years. He is perhaps best known as the
writer/director of the acclaimed French drama
LA HAINE (HATE), which, in 1995, garnered the
French César Awards for Best Screenplay and Best
Editing and won Kassovitz the Best Director prize at
the Cannes Film Festival.
Every Sunday, Solange comes to the gymnasium
to practice basket ball on her own. Every Sunday, at
the same time, a young Parisain comes to practice too.
He’s used to failing in trying to impress her
with his scores. And every Sunday, she smiles,
enjoying watching him gesticulate. But this
particular Sunday, the young man is playing an
unerring score...
"My father's first piece of advice before I
started making this film was to, 'make it
with whatever means you have. Count your
pennies and then invent a story'. Means I didn't really have, so I invented
a story that didn't require dialogue or lighting. The camera was a 16mm Bolex with
a spring wind that made it possible to film
30 seconds straight. The greatest part of
the budget went on an adaptor for photo
lenses that cost a horrible 700 francs (I still
remember the cost)".
Mathieu Kassovitz on Fierrot Le Pou
Courtesy of and produced by Lazennec
