France / Belgium
Pardevant notaire
Parallel stories of four legal situations in a rural study in Haute-Auvergne.
Through the accounts of two negotiated sales, an inventory and an
inheritance case, the lawyer’s study reigns over affairs of money
and property, intimate conversations and secret exchanges. The importance
of speech and the illumination of details such as gestures, attitudes
and gazes, which expose certain ways of doing and thinking about one’s
relationship to the world, in particular to death and money. The precise
and meticulous approach to the inside world of the notary allows the
viewer to penetrate into a series of tableaux composed of several
acts in which the characters and their actions appear to belong to
another world, so close and so far from our own, so different and
yet so similar to us. |
| Director |
Marc-Antoine
Roudil (France), Sophie Bruneau (Belgium) |
| Original
Version |
French |
| Photography
|
Antoine
Meert |
| Sound |
Yves
Capus |
| Editing |
Philippe
Boucq |
| Production |
ADR
Productions, Jacques Debs, Delphine Morel |
| Distribution |
WIP (Wallonie Image Production), Thierry Detaille |
| Coproduction
|
Cobra
Films, France 2 |
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