PAS DOUCE -Parting Shot- directed by : Jeanne Waltz
 France / Switzerland - 2006 - 84 mn - 35 - Color - 1.85 - DTS - Feature - Drama
 Original language : French   Original title : Pas Douce   

 

 

A small town in the mountains. A single hospital. While failing a suicide attempt in the nearby forest, a night nurse (Frederique, 24) seriously wounds a teenager (Marco, 13) who lands in her ward. No one saw her with her rifle. Everybody thinks of a crazy hunter. In a panic, Frederique realizes that she is going to have to tend to this boy whose aggressiveness has already terrorized her colleagues. While these two "savages” learn to tame one another, Frederique deliberately leaves a trail of hints that will lead Marco to imagine the unimaginable : this gentle nurse who cares for him is the one that almost killed him…

->French synopsis

 

 

 

 

Screenplay : Jeanne Waltz
Dir of photography : Hélène Louvart
Sound : Henri MaïKoff
Music : Cyril Ximenes
Editing : Eric Renault
Set : Françoise Arnaud
Producer : Didier Haudepin
Production company : BLOODY MARY PRODUCTIONS
Co-producer : Pierre-Alain Meier
Co-production company : Princes Films SA (switzerland) / Rhône Alpe Cinema /

 

Fred: Isild Le Besco
Eugénia: Lio
Marco: Steven de Almeida
His father: Yves Verhoeven Fred's lover: Christophe Sermet

 


 

2007 :

Berlin Film Fest
Official Selection - Forum

Buenos Aires IFF

Indielisboa IFF

San Francisco IFF
Fipresci Prize

Seattle IFF

Durban IFF

Umea IFF IFF (Sweden)
In Competition
Winner of Grand Prize for best film

Ciné Découvertes IFF
(Brussels)

Kalovy Vary IFF

Boston French Film Fest
(MFA)

Edinburgh IFF

Copenhagen IFF

Athens IFF

Viennale IFF

Molodist IFF
(Ukraine)

French Film Fest
Netherlands

Dublin French Film Fest

Black Nights IFF
(Tallinn)

2008 :

Tromso IFF

Women Film Fest
in Minneapolis

Bratislava French Film Fest

Verona IFF

Zlin IFF

 

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in French

Une petite ville. Un seul hôpital.
En ratant son suicide dans un coin de montagne isolé, Frédérique, une jeune infirmière, blesse grièvement un adolescent de 13 ans qui échoue dans son service. Panique, culpabilité.

Personne ne la soupçonne. Personne ne l’a vue. Tout le monde pense à un chasseur irresponsable.

A l’hôpital, Marco, rebelle et révolté, ne se laisse approcher que par Frédérique, calme et patiente.

Mis sur la piste par les indices qu’elle sème délibérément à son attention, Marco finit par deviner l’inimaginable : cette jeune femme qui le soigne lui a tiré dessus…