César Awards Best Short Film - Official Selections 2008 - 2-DVD Set ( Les deux vies du serpent / Le loup blanc / Deweneti / Rachel / La promenade / Premier voyage / Carlitopolis / Primrose hill / Eût-elle été criminelle ... / Mic Jean-Louis / Résistance aux tremblements ) ( Second Skin / The White Wolf / Ousmane / Rachel / A Gentle Stroll / Their First Journey / Carlitopolis / Primrose Hill / Even If She Had Been a Criminal / Mic Jean-Louis / Shock Resistant )

César Awards Best Short Film - Official Selections 2008 - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les deux vies du serpent / Le loup blanc / Deweneti / Rachel / La promenade / Premier voyage / Carlitopolis / Primrose hill / Eût-elle été criminelle ... / Mic Jean-Louis / Résistance aux tremblements
Alternate Title: Second Skin / The White Wolf / Ousmane / Rachel / A Gentle Stroll / Their First Journey / Carlitopolis / Primrose Hill / Even If She Had Been a Criminal / Mic Jean-Louis / Shock Resistant
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
239 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Mikhael Hers
Hélier Cisterne

Written By:
Mikhael Hers

Actors:
Hubert Benhamdine ..... Stéphane
Stéphanie Daub-Laurent ..... Joëlle
Thibault Vinçon ..... Xavier
Jeanne Candel ..... Sonia
Mila Dekker ..... Sylvia
Alain Libolt ..... L'homme âgé
Mona Heftre ..... Medhi
Gabriel Axtmeyer ..... Le copain de Marc
Wissam Charaf ..... Marc
Timothée Régnier
Michael Stokes

Synopsis:

Second Skin (Les deux vies du serpent)
Pierre is 17. During the summer, he escapes from his family to meet his friends. This is when the accident happens.

The White Wolf (Le loup blanc)
A boy befriends a white wolf in the woods.

Ousmane (Deweneti)
Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

Rachel
Like every weekend, 19-year-old student Rachel comes to the home of Stéphane Mancini to baby-sit his two-year-old baby Hugo.

A Gentle Stroll (La Promenade)
The day of David's wedding, Robert, his 82-year-old father asks for his son's help in finding him a woman.

Their First Journey (Premier Voyage)
Chloé begins her 293rd day on earth. Her father begins his 10,935th. But today will be the first time that they'll have their first close encounter.

Carlitopolis
Luis Nieto's short about a lab mouse and experiments upon it employs a clever technique.

Primrose Hill
Just before Christmas, in the suburban high-rise fringes to the west of Paris, 25-year-old Stéphane, Joëlle, Xavier and Sonia decide to go for a walk in the park.

Even if she had been a criminal (Eût-elle été criminelle)
France, the summer of 1944, at the time of the Liberation. The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the war...

Mic Jean-Louis
My name is Mic Jean-Louis. I was born in Fleurance in the Gers region.

Shock Resistant (Résistance aux tremblements)
A mysterious old lady dwells in an abandoned apartment block.

Second Skin (Les deux vies du serpent)
Pierre is 17. During the summer, he escapes from his family to meet his friends. On a river, they play tricks to scare each other. This is when the accident happens.

The White Wolf (Le loup blanc)
A boy befriends a white wolf in the woods.

Ousmane (Deweneti)
Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

Rachel
Like every weekend, nineteen-year-old student Rachel comes to the home of Stéphane Mancini,a forty-odd man to baby-sit his two-year-old baby Hugo. When Stéphane, who lives alone with Hugo after splitting up with his wife, has gone out for the night, Christine takes advantage of it to invite her good friend Christine. As Hugo is asleep they start exploring the apartment and have fun trying on Stéphane's ex-wife's clothes. Two of their male friends arrive and are invited to join the two girls. But suddenly Stéphane comes back, earlier than initially planned. He kicks all the gang out, except Rachel who is wearing his ex-wife's lady's suit...

A Gentle Stroll (La Promenade)
The day of David's wedding, Robert, his eighty-two-year-old father, who is physically ill and who is beginning to go slightly off the rails, asks for his son's help in finding him a woman. Struggling to understand this incongruous request and balking at betraying his mother, David is evasive, then hesitates. He's never had the affectionate sharing and complicity that he'd hoped for with his father; what if this request were the opportunity to strike up the father/son dialog that is so badly missing? David goes on a stroll with Robert and the two men soon find themselves searching for prostitute for the elderly man.

Their First Journey (Premier Voyage)
Chloé begins her 293rd day on earth. Her father begins his 10,935th. But today will be the first time that they'll have their first close encounter, during a train journey. This may be an opportunity for the father to discover the being who entered his life ten months ago.

Carlitopolis
Carlitopolis is about a student in plastic arts whose end of the year project is being shown to a jury. In the film, a little laboratory mouse called Carlito is used to perform all sorts of experiments. This trivial scenes become absurd and misleading with a mixture of real images and special effects that lead us to doubt the authenticity of the visuals. How does one perceive what is real and what is false?

Primrose Hill
Just before Christmas, in the suburban high-rise fringes to the west of Paris, 25-year-old Stéphane, Joëlle, Xavier and Sonia decide to go for a walk in the park above the town where they spent their teenage years. While wending their way through curving alleys, they recall their favorite pop songs, and talk of their work, sex and failed ambitions.

Even if she had been a criminal (Eût-elle été criminelle)
France, the summer of 1944, at the time of the Liberation. The public punishment of women accused of having affairs with Germans during the war...

Mic Jean-Louis
My name is Mic Jean-Louis. I was born in Fleurance in the Gers region. When I was two years old, I came to Puycasquier. And then I never left it again. I put down roots here.

Shock Resistant (Résistance aux tremblements)
A mysterious old lady dwells in an abandoned apartment block. She lives alone but will simply not leave the place.

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