MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON 2010 César Award - Best Adaptation Festival Selection: Hong Kong International Film Festival (2010), New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Today (2010), Pusan International Film Festival (2009), HOF International Film Festival (2009) West Coast Premiere Drama/Romance France, 2009 In French with English subtitles 35mm/Scope/2.35/Color/Dolby DTS/101 min Directed by: Stéphane Brizé Written by: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon Based on the novel by: Éric Holder Cinematography by: Antoine Héberlé Editing by: Anne Klotz Music by: Ange Ghinozzi Produced by: Gilles Sacuto, Miléna Poylo Production Company: TS Productions Coproduction: F Comme Film, Arte France Cinéma International Sales: Rezo 29, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière 75009 Paris France Phone: +33 1.42.46.46.30 www.rezofilms.com U.S. Distributor Lorber Films 333 West 39 St. #503 New York, NY 10018 http://www.lorberfilms.com/ Cast: Vincent Lindon (Jean), Sandrine Kiberlain (Véronique Chambon), Aure Atika (Anne-Marie), Jean-Marc Thibault (Jean’s father), Arthur Le Houérou (Jérémy), Bruno Lochet (Jean’s co-worker), Abdallah Moundy (Jean’s co-worker) Anne Houdy (Funeral home sales person), Michèle Goddet (School principal), Geneviève Mnich (Véronique’s mother - voice) Jean (Vincent Lindon, Welcome (COL•COA 2009), Anything For Her, The School of Flesh) lives a simple life, happily married to Anne-Marie (Aurore Atika, Fear(s) of the Dark, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (COL•COA 2008), The Beat That My Heart Skipped). Everything changes when his son’s schoolteacher, Mademoiselle Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain, Little Nicholas, After You (COL•COA 2004), Seventh Heaven, For Sale), asks him to make a presentation about his job to the class. She is unlike anyone he has met before. A manual worker who builds houses, Jean is deeply moved by her elegance, her love of classical music and her discreet ways. They fall madly in love with each other but try to control their feelings. Their mutual attraction develops in silence, manifesting itself in subtle ways and yet growing stronger, affecting Jean’s work and his relationship with his family. STÉPHANE BRIZÉ wrote and directed a first short film in 1993, Bleu Dommage, awarded Best Short at the Cognac Film Festival. He collaborated with Florence Vignon for the screenplay of his second short, L’oeil qui traîne (1996), then for a first feature, Hometown Blue (1999), in which she also stars. Presented at the Directors Fortnight in Cannes, Hometown Blue won Best Screenplay at the 1999 Deauville Film Festival and was awarded the Michel d’Ornano Prize. Brizé came to present the César nominated I am Not Here to Be Loved at COL•COA in 2006, his second feature as writer-director. After Among Adults (2007), an experimental third film co-produced with Claude Lelouch, Brizé returns to COL•COA in 2010 with Mademoiselle Chambon. He is also the author of a documentary film, Le Bel Instant. PRESS "Following in the delicate footsteps of his previous "Not Here to Be Loved" and "Between Adults," scribe-helmer Stephane Brize's adaptation of Eric Holder's novel is hands-off, both aesthetically and literally, allowing near-wordless scenes to play out with the slightest of gestures and virtually zero sex. Pic has performed modestly at home and reps a strong fourth feature from a filmmaker who deserves recognition outside France." Jordan Mintzer, Variety. "Mademoiselle Chambon" (picked up by Lorber Films) is exquisite, never putting a foot wrong. (...) A standard tale of adultery, but Brize decants it through a radical form, dispensing with psychology and extended dialogue. (...) "Chambon" is one of those films whose seeming smallness belies its breadth." Erica Abeel, indieWIRE.