BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES (Se souvenir des belles choses) Official Selection: COL•COA 2003, Munich International Film Festival (2002), Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (2002), Montréal World Film Festival (2001) 2003 César award for Best First Film for Zabou Breitman, Best Actress for Isabelle Carré, Best Supporting Actor for Bernard Le Coq Drama/Romance France, 2002 In French and Yiddish with English subtitles 35mm/1.85:1/Color/Dolby SRD/114 min Directed by: Zabou Breitman Written by: Zabou Breitman, Jean-Claude Deret Cinematography by: Dominique Chapuis Editing by: Bernard Sasia Produced by: Stéphane Marsil Production Company: Hugo Films Co-produced by: Les Productions de la Guéville, Les Films de la Colombe, France 3 Cinéma With: Isabelle Carré (Claire Poussin), Bernard Campan (Philippe), Zabou Breitman (Marie Bjorg), Julien Courbey (Stéphane), Maher Kamoun (Zizou), Bernard Le Coq (Christian Licht), Anne Le Ny (Nathalie Poussin), Dominique Pinon (Robert) Love is confounded by illness in Beautiful Memories, a tragic love story between Claire (Isabelle Carré), a young woman suffering from memory loss and Philippe (Bernard Campan), a wine expert unable to deal with the recent death of his wife and child in a car accident. They meet in the mental institution where they have been placed and fall madly in love. While Philippe’s condition improves with their relationship, Claire’s memory loss and onset of Alzheimer’s worsens. Although they move in together after their release from the hospital, her illness becomes a critical issue in their relationship. Screened at COL•COA in 2003, Beautiful Memories is the film chosen by the COL•COA audience to be rerun in 2009. ABOUT ZABOU BREITMAN Zabou Breitman started acting at age four and has appeared in many films, plays and TV movies, including: La Boum 2, C’est La Vie, Cuisine et Dépendances, My Little Business. In 2001, she made her directorial debut with Beautiful Memories (co-written with her father), and was awarded a César for Best First Film. While writing and directing short films, she returned to acting in more dramatic roles in Michel Deville’s Almost Peaceful (COL•COA 2003), and Bruno Podalydès’ The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005). Her critically-acclaimed second feature film, The Man of My Life (2006) was released in the U.S. by Strand Releasing. Someone I Loved (COL•COA 2009) is her third film and first novel adaptation. She successfully continues her parallel careers, and also acts in The First Day of the Rest of Your life (COL•COA 2009).