Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2007 / Pas douce / Switzerland, France 2007
After her utterly convincing turn as an obsessive fan in Backstage, French actress Isild Le Besco creates another creepy portrait of monomania in Parting Shot. Impressive first feature by Basel-born helmer Jeanne Waltz is part psychological study, part personal epiphany as a bungled suicide attempt forces a young woman to connect more with society around her.
After her utterly convincing turn as an obsessive fan in Backstage, French actress Isild Le Besco creates another creepy portrait of monomania in Parting Shot. Impressive first feature by Basel-born helmer Jeanne Waltz is part psychological study, part personal epiphany as a bungled suicide attempt forces a young woman to connect more with society around her. Writer-director Waltz, with a decade of shorts behind her, keeps the 83-minute pic taut throughout, with hardly a wasted scene. Small changes in emotional calibration are beautifully handled, and the atmosphere of a small mountain town, remote from the wider world, is captured via unfussy helming.
83 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Jeanne Waltz
/ Screenplay Jeanne Waltz
/ Dir. of Photography Hélène Louvart
/ Music Cyril Ximenes
/ Editor Eric Renault
/ Producer Pierre-Alain Meier, Didier Haudepin
/ Production Prince Film SA
/ Cast Isild Le Besco, Steven de Almeida, Lio, Yves Verhoeven
/ Contact Pyramide International, Prince Film SA
www: www.pasdouce-lefilm.com
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