Beautiful loser
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Beautiful loser |
| Original title | Beautiful loser |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Maxime Roy |
| script |
François Créton Maxime Roy |
| production | Alice Bloch-Robin |
| music | Pierre Rousseau |
| camera | Xavier Sylvestre-Bru |
| cut | Clement Candelara |
| occupation | |
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Beautiful Loser is a 2018 French short film directed by Maxime Roy .
action
Michel is 53 years old, a dry alcoholic and, after 22 years as a consumer, has been on methadone withdrawal for 4 months . At Alcoholics Anonymous he talks about his pain and his problems in doing justice to the almost adult son Léo and the barely 10-month-old straggler Gabriel, whom he is allowed to look after every two weeks on the weekend. He never wanted a second child, feels overwhelmed and feels the need to relapse again.
One day he has Gabriel at home and Léo also comes by. Both spend a harmonious weekend, at the end of which Michel and Léo bring little Gabriel on the motorcycle to his mother Hélène. She is furious because it snowed and something could have happened to the child. She throws Léo out, who wants to smoke in her apartment. Michel, who still feels a lot for her, rejects her: she needs a hold in life herself.
The visit to the doctor also demotivates Michel, so the doctor makes it clear to him that years of overexploitation of the body cannot be undone within a few weeks. It takes time, but it will get better. Michel is late to pick up Gabriel and is disappointed by Hélène. Léo, in turn, reveals to him a little later that he will not spend the night with him, but rather sleep with a friend. Michel is frustrated and cannot sleep at night as Gabriel screams all the time. Léo does not answer his call, so he gives up: he buys heroin . When he wants to inject it at home, Léo calls and tells Michel that he will be with him in five minutes. Michel begins to cry and injects the heroin down the sink.
production
Beautiful Loser is the fourth short film that Maxime Roy made as a director. It is based on the life of François Créton, who co-wrote the script and took on the lead role. The titles Ce soir, c'est Noël by Les Wampas and Ghostrider by Suicide can be heard in the film . Constance Bloch created the costumes and Elsa Stroom created the film .
Beautiful Loser premiered in October 2018 at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur. In France, the film was shown in February 2019 at the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand . ARTE showed Beautiful Loser on January 27, 2019 as part of the program Kurzschluss , where it was subtitled.
Awards
At the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, François Créton was awarded the Actor Prize in 2019. Beautiful Loser won the Grand Jury Prize in the short film category at the Itinérances Alès Festival in April 2019. The film was also nominated for a César in the category Best Short Film in 2020 .
Web links
- Beautiful Loser in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with the director and leading actor of "Beautiful Loser" on arte.tv.
- ↑ Michel ce Beautiful Loser . franceculture.fr, June 26, 2019.
- ↑ 37e édition du Festival Cinéma d'Alès - Itinérances on itinerances.org