TELEVISION


I have worked on several TV-movies as a screenwriter but I have only made one as a director, incidentally produced by my own company. I certainly don't look down on TV-movies, even though it is becoming more and more difficult to provide a quality product (standardisation of subjects, omnipresence of series, increasingly restrictive production conditions) but I don't have the chance to turn them down because I'm not offered any! To be honest, I don't really go looking for them since I prefer to concentrate on the cinema.


ADORABLE PETITE BOMBE (1996)

BACKGROUND
My observation of media people gave me the idea for this film. My initial intention was to make it as a cinema feature. After two years of trying, I realized that I wouldn't be able to do it. I bought the screenplay back from Christian Fechner who had optioned it and I made it for television.

SYNSOPSIS
A famous TV news anchorman sets off for Cambodia to do a live report on the last pockets of armed resistance. The village that he travels to is attacked. A little girl leaps into his jeep to flee with him. A first, he rejects her. Then, realizing the media value that he can extract from the situation, he agrees to take her with him. Back in Paris, his wife, who knows the ridiculous lengths that his ambition can take him to, refuses to play along. And so the reporter ends up alone with the little girl. This situation will turn his life upside down.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Super 16 mm, 90 min
Screenplay: Philippe Muyl, Philippe Lopez-Curval, Alain Riondet
Director of photography: Luc Drion
Cameraman: Pierre Gordovaer
Sound engineers: Yves Osmu / Gérard Lamps
First assistant director: Laurent Herbiet
Set designer: Sylvie Olive
Editor: Françoise Berger-Garnault
Music: René-Marc Bini

CAST
Philippe Volter (Gérard)
Olivia Brunaux (Alice)
Patiaporana (Ravy)
Feodor Atkine (Boris)
Michèle Bernier (Jacqueline)
Eliane Boeri (Yvette)
Delphine Serina (Natacha)
Irène Tassembedo (Marylin)
Olivier Pajot (José)