A French couple burnt out by the routine of their daily family life decides after much hesitation to travel to Sicily for a short holiday. Voyages en Italie depicts the neuroses and eccentricities of Jean-Philippe and Sophie, the gracious dynamics of their relationship and the depth of their affection and intimacy.
At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.
Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia HANSEN-LØVE remarks, “In the eyes of the people, a woman’s film is always a woman’s film, while a man’s movie is simply… a movie”.
Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.
Screenwriter and filmmaker Sophie LETOURNEUR (1978, France) studied at Duperré School of Applied Arts and then at the ÉnsAD (French National School of Decorative Arts), majoring in Film. Her feature debut, La vie au Ranch (2009), was enthusiastically embraced in France, winning both the French Film Award and the Audience Award at Belfort Film Festival. Although she experiments in different forms of film, Letourneur often playfully trains the camera on the everyday lives of young women.
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