Mouton
New Directors/New Films 2014
March 19 - 30, 2014
U.S. Premiere. Seventeen-year-old Aurelien (aka Sheep) is granted independence from his troubled family and creates a good life for himself in a seaside town—until a freak accident changes things irrevocably. Directors Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone and actor Michael Mormentyn in person for both screenings.
U.S. Premiere
Directors Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone and actor Michael Mormentyn in person for both screenings.
Mouton (“Sheep”) is the nickname of Aurelien (David Mérabet), who at 17 is granted independence from his troubled family and goes off to live on his own in a seaside town. Hired as a chef’s assistant, Sheep fits in well with his coworkers and makes new friends. Life is finally good. Shot in 16mm, Gilles Deroo and Marianne Pistone’s first feature studies the quotidian aspects of Mouton’s life through his eyes as well as those of the town’s residents. Though fiction, the story is filmed as if it were a cinéma vérité documentary, the camera wandering from scene to scene, character to character. And just when audiences get into the groove of this town, something happens that changes things irrevocably. So two acts, not equally divided, bring us closer to the reality of living than many other films do, simply through small moments and gestures. Winner of two prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, Mouton is a lovely evocation of the pleasures and pain of small-town existence.
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