Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2003 / Ma camera et moi / France 2002
Inventive, affecting movie about a young guy whose emotional education is
as much via his viewfinder as via his genitals.
A deceptively simple but inventive and affecting pic about the obsession to film life rather than live it, My Camera and Me limns a guy who, from ages 6 to 36, rarely lifts his finger off the trigger of a camera pointed at daily events. The urge to document and the struggle to connect are explored with considerable humor and a pleasant melancholy as our hero, Max (Zinedine Soualem), falls for a sensual blind girl (Julie Gayet). Max narrates a first-person odyssey into which his increasingly sophisticated home movies are interjected. His emotional education - and he has a lot to learn - takes place as much via his viewfinder as via his genitals. Soualem, who has a gift for subtle visual humor, is spot-on, and as the masseuse Gayet convinces in every nuance.
Lisa Nesselson
85 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Christophe Loizillon
/ Screenplay Christophe Loizillon, Santiago Amigorena
/ Dir. of Photography Aurélien Devaux
/ Music Laurent Martin
/ Editor Sarah Turoche
/ Producer Yann Gilbert
/ Production La Mouche Du Coche
/ Cast Zinedine Soualem, Julie Gayet, Julien Collet, Isabelle Grare, Juliette Andrea, Gerald Maillet
/ Contact MGI International, La Mouche Du Coche
MGI International
8, rue St-Marc, 75002, Paris
France
Phone: +33 1 422 142 22
Fax: +33 1 422 142 15
E-mail: [email protected]
La Mouche Du Coche
79, rue des Archives, 75003, Paris
France
Phone: +33 1 446 129 24
Fax: +33 1 446 129 24
E-mail: [email protected]
Antoine Khalife
Christophe Loizillon
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