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THE SHORT FILMS
L’ECOLE DES CHEFS (1981)
BACKGROUND
I had submitted several subsidy applications to the CNC for various projects, in vain. At the time, I was making a lot of corporate programmes on video. I came up with the idea for a film that could be shot very quickly in a studio. I asked someone to lend me a sound stage and a control room for a day and, with my savings, I made this short film.
SYNOPSIS
With the growing power of television, it is impossible for a politician to succeed without perfect mastery of speech. An ambitious man learns the ground rules of this dialectic that is the key to success. He doesn't realize that by continually taking people for idiots, he himself is grotesque.
ARTISTIC INFORMATION
Screenplay and dialogue: Philippe Muyl
The politician: Jacques Canselier
Voice-over: Gérard Hérold
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
35 mm, 9 minutes
Director of photography: Yves Pouffary
Sound engineer: Yves Osmu
Editor: Frédéric de Chateaubriand
AWARDS
Audience Grand Prize and Fipresci Prize at the Lille International Short Film Festival.
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