Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

Robert Mitchum est mort

Robert Mitchum Is Dead

Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn
France, Poland, Belgium, Norway, 2010, 91 Min
m-appeal World Sales

Franky Pastor is an unsuccessful actor in Paris. The only part he can act well is that of the dying man. Precisely this talent makes his penniless agent Arséne, who has his office located in the public laundry, believe in his protégé’s international breakthrough. When Arsené learns that the director Sarrineff, whom Franky worships, intends to make a new film and still is looking for actors, they travel to a film festival in the Arctic Circle to meet him there. Together with Franky, a stolen car, a suitcase with mysterious contents and a weapon, which is to lend a little more weight to certain instructions, Arséne departs for the journey. This is how a bizarre road movie across half of Europe and film history begins.

Be it film noir, western or classic zombie movie, American genre cinema becomes the place of escape and promises of new beginnings for these two protagonists from the heartland of auteurs’ films. Two losers are at the steering wheel there, up to their neck in trouble, trying with their last ounce of strength to change the course of their mediocre life. Owing to the Finnish cameraman Timo Salminen, each frame contains faint echoes of laconic taciturnity in the style of Kaurismäki, mingled with the certainty that failure is a part of life. Robert Mitchum is dead. Long live the new heroes!

Filmformat
35mm | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn
Kamera
Timo Salminen
Ton
Quentin Collette
Schnitt
Yann Dedet, Thomas Marchand
Ausstattung
Pierre Pell
Musik
Étienne Charry
Darsteller
Danuta Stenka, André Wilms, Nils Utsi, Ewelina Walendziak, Maria Bock, Timothée Régnier, Ulla Bogue, Magne Høyland
Produzent
Igor Wojtowicz
Produktion
Ferris & Brockman
Co-Produktion
Studio Agart, Panache Productions, Sweet Films, u.a.
Kontakt
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Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn

Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn - Olivier Babinet – born in France in 1971. Wrote and produced audio dramas for radio already in his youth.

Fred Kihn – born in France in 1956. Changed careers to work in the film industry after several jobs as a driver of lorries and ambulances as well as a teacher.

ROBERT MITCHUM EST MORT is the (full-length) feature film debut of these two directors.

Movies
(Olivier Babinet)
C’ÈTAIT LE CHIEN D’EDDY (2003, short)
C’EST PLUTOT GENRE JOHNNY WALKER (2008, short)