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FEATURE FILMS
L’ARBRE SOUS LA MER (1985)
I had started adapting the book for a "normal" production budget. When I was unable to find a producer (and so financing), I had to revise the script at least ten times in order to make it economically viable. Bernard Lutic, an excellent director of photography (killed since in a helicopter accident while scouting for locations), was a huge help. We made the film with three tiny spotlights, in other words virtually without lighting. The film won the Best Photography Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
SYNOPSIS
Mathieu, a young geologist with a very Cartesian outlook, travels to a small Greek island to study the petrified trees there. The only inhabitants of the island are a fisherman and his daughter, a strange character who spends her life in the sea and claims to meet a being there with whom she experiences total harmony: a dolphin. Little by little, as the island works its magic, Mathieu loses his self-confidence and his certainties. This bewitching water girl is slowly going to draw him into her world.
CREDITS
35 mm, 1:66, 90 min
Based on the novel "Une jeune fille nue" by Nikos Athanassiadis (Albin Michel)
Screenplay and dialogue: Philippe Muyl
Line producer: Georges Pellegrin
Director of photography: Bernard Lutic
Underwater photography: Christian Pétron
Sound engineer: Yves Osmu
Set designer: Nikos Mélétopoulos
Editor: Jean-François Goyet
CAST
Christophe Malavoy (Mathieu)
Eleni Dragoumi (Eléni)
Julien Guiomar (Thomas)
Yavuz Ozkan (father)
PRODUCTION
Synchronie Productions
DISTRIBUTION (January 16, 1985)
Aïgo Distribution
FESTIVALS
Grand Prize for Best Photography at the San Sebastian Festival
Audience Grand Prize at the Dinard Maritime Films Festival
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