It Burns / 800 km Difference - Romance ( Ça brûle / 800 km de différence - Romance )

It Burns / 800 km Difference - Romance (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ça brûle / 800 km de différence - Romance
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
190 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2006 - 2002 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Claire Simon

Written By:
Jérôme Beaujour
Claire Simon

Actors:
Camille Varenne ..... Livia
Gilbert Melki ..... Jean Susini
Kader Mohamed ..... Moisi
Marion Maintenay ..... Amanda
Olivia Willaumez ..... La mère de Livia
Viviane Bonelli ..... Mélanie
Jean-Quentin Châtelain ..... Le père de Livia
Patrick Moutonnet ..... L'acolyte du père
Edith Amsellem ..... Chloé, la femme de Jean
Morgane Moré ..... Aurélie
Christophe Ballester ..... Marc
Pierre Gorris ..... Jean-Pierre
Guillaume Barraud ..... René
Lionel Mazouillé ..... Lionel
Mourad Boukebal ..... Mourad
Manon Garcia ..... Herself
Grégory Mutti ..... Himself
Serge Mutti ..... Himself
Joseph Mutti ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Ça brûle / It Burns (2006)
Livia, fifteen, is one with her environment, seizing every day the strength of the elements as she rides her horse. Passionate and intense, she falls in love with Jean, a fireman and married father of 40. In her mind, his fights against fire make him the incarnation of rightness. He is a steady force against excesses; against fear and panic. But their love falls apart when he returns to his family, and leaves place to destruction.

800 kilomètres de différence - Romance / 800 km Difference - Romance (2002)
Documentary about two teenagers in love separated by geography: Manon lives in Paris, Greg in a small village in the south - 800 kilometres apart.

Ça brûle / It Burns (2006)
Having been thrown from her horse, fifteenyear- old Livia lies unconscious. Coming back to her senses as the fireman Jean tests her reactions, she feels his hands on her body and is overcome by a wave of desire. All through the day, the adolescent tries all she can to attract a married man who has awakened such a burning passion in her - this sudden love leads her to go beyond the point of no return. As her own camerawoman, film director Claire Simon scans the faces and bodies of her characters with a sensuousness that invites the observor to reach out and touch them. The stirrings of desire carry the dreams and rage of a young woman, the forces at play in her body and soul. This is conveyed less on a psychological level than through the behaviour and at times even quite trivial gestures of the young horse-woman. With the exception of Gilbert Melki, most of the actors are non-professionals, including Camille Varenne, a former student of the Circus Frattellini, in the principal role. In its casting, ÇA BRULE blends documentary and fictional approaches. By inserting footage of the fires that ravaged the heavily-wooded department of the Var in 2004 and 2005, the film director interweaves her romance with the dramatic impact of a local event and its settings. The result is a disturbing and sensitive film accompanied by a magnificant soundtrack.

800 kilomètres de différence - Romance / 800 km Difference - Romance (2002)
To be honest, the 800 kilometers separating Claire Simon's daughter Manon from Greg, her sweetheart, are more than just spatial. She lives in the capital, he is from Claviers, a small village in the Haut-Var.The difference is also cultural - she, the city girl, reads Flaubert while he, the baker's son, is busy preparing to obtain his hunter's permit. They meet in the Provence countryside during the summer of 2000, and start a romance under the filmmaker's watchful gaze. François Truffaut once declared that 'in the Lubitsch gruyere, every hole is a masterpiece'. In the romance that unfolds before our eyes, the best is what we do not see. Claire Simon, who films the wind in the trees as if it were a caress, as if nature itself were waking up to love, knows what she is doing. When she films Gregory's father's nocturnal work, she is also filming the labour of love. And she wonderfully well captures the passing of time, so slow when one is fifteen or seventeen years old. 800 KILOMETRES DE DIFFERENCE - ROMANCE could be seen as a hommage to Jean Renoir, whose 1935 Toni, under Marcel Pagnol's guidance, announced the approach of neorealism. Indeed the portrait of Greg's Italian grandfather, whose father fled fascism in 1922, could point us in this direction, towards the corner of history jutting into each of our lives. But Claire Simon prefers to pursue that elusive something, like her daughter's awakening to love, with all of the possible fiction that it entails...

Ça brûle / It Burns (2006)
A self-absorbed adolescent girl forms an unhealthy fixation on a handsome volunteer fireman in director Claire Simon's emotional teen drama. Livia (Camille Varene) is a fifteen year-old girl who lives in the south of France with her divorced mother. As the summer heat begins to radiate Livia spends most of her days trotting around the small Provençal town atop a horse from her father's farm. A frequent target of ridicule amongst her peers, Livia's horse emboldens her with a sense of superiority that she just can't seem to achieve in the classroom. When her father comes to claim the horse and Livia is forced to face her tormentors eye to eye, she begins to turn her attentions increasingly towards happily married husband and father Jean. A kind volunteer fireman who treats Livia with a respect rarely afforded to the girl by her peers, Jean may be old enough to be Livia's father though a strange attraction begins to develop between the pair. Later, as the young girl's infatuation with the firefighter begins to grow and she casts aside her inhibitions to pursue him romantically at any cost, the relationship shared between Livia and Jean threatens to take a tragic turn.

800 kilomètres de différence - Romance / 800 km Difference - Romance (2002)
Manon, 15, meets Greg, 17, while on vacation. He lives in Claviers, a little village in rural France's, while she lives in Paris.
Greg and Manon are in love. This is a portrait of a young man who comes alive when his girlfriend is with him, for its their story that counts. He must deal with the distance that separates them and come to terms with the past.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 17 January, 2012.

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