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    Darling

    Christine CARRIÈRE 2007 France Fiction color 93min French 35mm
    Life does not agree with Catherine, a rejected chubby girl who grew up as an unwanted child in a remote French village. She finds comfort in food, in working in the bakery and in dreams of escaping her hometown. Her parents do not seem to know what a heart is and her father can get violent occasionally. Her only hope lies in those big trucks zooming along the main road under her bedroom window, hoping some day, her prince charming at the wheel will dismount his modern steed and take her away. So she runs and runs along the road, in red shorts, too tight as she turns into a young woman, trying to tempt one of those modern knights. One night, one of them notices her. He is good-looking but Catherine soon realizes that he is also a drunk and a violent pervert. The dream turns into a scary nightmare... she is the only one that can save herself from a predestined fate.
    The other characters accentuate the loneliness and cruelty in Catherine’s world, “darling” in the truck drivers’ radio communication network. Director Christine CARRIÈRE shatters a romantic myth, and from the ruins an option for a new life emerges.

    Director

    Christine CARRIÈRE

    Christine CARRIÈRE, while studying at the Femis Film School, made numerous lms on video and 16mm. Her short lms Quai d’Argenteuil and Les Pieds Humides were selected at the Clermond Ferrand Short Film Festival, as was Le Mariage Blanc, also screened at Cannes, and which won awards at Angers and Dunkerque. Her critically acclaimed rst feature, Rosine, won four awards at the Locarno International Film Festival. Christine CARRIÈRE brings a highly intelligent gaze to bear upon adolescence. Who Plucked the Feathers Off the Moon? was presented at Cannes in the “Directors’ Fortnight” section and won the CICAE Prize.

    Christine CARRIÈRE

    1990 Le Mariage Blanc

    1994 Rosine

    1999 Who Plucked the Feathers Off the Moon?

    2005 Drogues et Cerveau

    2007 達令 Darling

     

    Director/Christine CARRIÈRE

    Producer/Edouard WEIL

    Screenplay/Pascal ARNOLD, Christine CARRIÈRE

    Cinematographer/Gordon SPOONER

    Editor/Martine BARRAQUÉ, Matilde GROSJEAN

    Sound/Eric ROPHÉ

    Actor/Marina FOÏS, Guillaume CANET, Océane DECAUDAIN,

    Anne BENOÎT, Marc BRUNET, Chantal CLÉMENT

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    達令 / Darling

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