La vis
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | La vis |
| Country of production | France |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 18 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Didier Flamand |
| script | Didier Flamand Pierre-Alain Mercier |
| production | Serge Blumental |
| music | Gérard Torikian |
| camera | Agnes Godard |
| cut | Monica Coleman |
| occupation | |
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La vis is a 1993 French comedy short film directed by Didier Flamand .
action
While doing DIY, Mr. K discovers a screw in his screw box that has a thread, but the slot in the head is missing. Other screws also have this defect. After a brief dispute with his wife, who is stirring an oversized pot in the kitchen, K angrily goes to the Metallika department store . Here he witnessed various absurd scenes, such as an experiment with a fire extinguisher that went wrong and a demonstration of a machine that produces cherries. K first brings his screw complaint to a small salesman. When he can't help him, K insists on speaking to the director of the department store. He reluctantly receives a corresponding document. In the elevator, K also experiences various unbelievable scenes, such as a small band playing right in the cabin. The lift boy initially refuses to take K to the director's floor, but is convinced by the document.
K asks his way through to the director, who finally looks at the screw. Little by little, more and more people, including screw designers, are involved in the search for an explanation for how screws are created. Finally, a technician can read out who made the screw. The man who resembles K is appointed director and confronted. Unsure, but then increasingly violent, he calls the screw ( vis ) a nail ( clou ) and, despite the thread, hammers it into the wall. Everyone involved is delighted.
production
La vis was the directorial debut of actor Didier Flamand. The film was shot in the Palais de Tokyo . A special feature of the film is that it falls back on a fantasy language that mixes incomprehensible words with German, French and English fragments. Written gibberish can also be seen in the film, for example the word Azsentzor (passenger elevator , French "ascenseur") and in the cabin Nei parlat conduktür ( do not speak to the driver, French "Ne pas parler au conducteur"). In the opening credits of the film, the title is given as Dá viss and subtitled as La vis . La vis was shot in black and white; Critics described the atmosphere of the film as Kafkaesque .
The costumes were created by Christine Bernardet , Marylin Fitoussi , Claire Fraisse and Annick Mainguet-Suares , the film construction came from Didier Flamand's brother Thierry Flamand . The film premiered in May 1993 at the Cannes International Film Festival .
Awards
La vis was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 1994 and received a nomination for a Gold Hugo in the category Best Short Film at the Chicago International Film Festival in the same year . In 1995 the film was awarded a César in the Best Short Film category.
Web links
- La vis the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ La vis ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on quinzaine-realisateurs.com
- ↑ a b La vis on collections.forumdesimages.fr
