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CONTE DE QUARTIER

In Competition
Directed by :
Florence MIAILHE 
Country:
FRANCE
Year:
2006
Duration:
15.00 minutes
  • Short Film Special Distinction, 2006

Synopsis

In a city in perpetual motion, seven characters are singled out from the faceless crowd in a neighbourhood under the onslaught of a contractor’s wrecking ball. Their paths cross during an eventful day. A rag doll with an inner secret is relayed from one character to another, creating a skein of tangled destinies. Inspired by tabloid news items, Urban Tale is a colourful yarn, an urban legend with violent undertones, a lively adventure at the crossroads of realism and fantasy.

Florence Miailhe used sand-and-oil-paint-on-glass animation and a digital camera to create Urban Tale, assembling the components of each shot by computer. The film’s graceful charm and disturbing strangeness and the multifaceted poetry of community solidarity are superimposed on the vortex of a dehumanizing city. Without dialogue, the film is borne along by Denis Colin’s subtle musical score and Olivier Calvert’s sound design. Urban Tale is a fireworks display to light up audiences’ imaginations.

Press kit download (PDF)

Florence MIAILHE

Credits

Contacts and useful links

Production

LES FILMS DE L'ARLEQUIN - 23, Rue Meslay 75003 PARIS - FRANCE - T : 01 42 77 20 55 - arlequin@wanadoo.fr - www.filmsdelarlequin.com ONF (CANADA)

Distribution

LES FILMS DE L'ARLEQUIN - T : 01 42 77 20 55 - arlequin@wanadoo.fr

Foreign sales

ONF - T : 001 514 283 98 01 - j.arseneault@onf.ca

The Official Selection 2006

Short Films