The Circus
Foreign title: Le Cirque (French)
- Studio
- Folimage-Valence Productions, National Film Board of Canada.
With the Participation Of: Arte France, Région Rhône-Alpes, CNC - Distributor
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify, forming a grotesque circus - a cacophonous circle that pushes the child back, depriving him of one final touch of his mother's hand. Using rotoscoped drawings suggestive of charcoal sketches, as well as 3D and object animation techniques, The Circus compels viewing with its unsettling realism. Color is employed metaphorically to subtly express the promise and the memory of maternal affection. Nicolas Brault's highly personal film, suffused with poetic modesty, casts a poignantly sincere gaze on the heartbreak of a child facing the fearful, mysterious experience of his mother's death.
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Nicolas Brault
- Assistant Director
- Flore Poinsard
Producing
- Producer
- Pascal Le Nôtre, Julie Roy, René Chénier
- Line Producers
- Emmanuel Bernard, Francine Langdeau
Writing
- Writer
- Nicolas Brault, Sylvain Charbonneau
Animation
- Animator
- Nicolas Brault, Pierre-Luc Granjon
Voices
- Voice
- Marie-Ève Milot, Jean-Pierre Bergeron, Sophie Clément, Jacques Godin, Josée Lefebvre
- Cast
- Léo Douvry, Mathis Bergeron, Corentin Bergeron, Mathéo Bergeron, Cécile Auxire-Marmouget, Guy Gaudeneche, Isabelle Brocal, Marie-Louise Moulin, Hal Collomb, Arlette Le Breton-Pentel, Dominique Bouchery, Valérie Baudouin, Jean-Pierre Yvars, Mellie Arnaud, Zoya Trofimova, Eva Hanke, Philippe Duval, Luisa Gaillard, Line Wible, Jean-Louis Debard, Bruno Lopes Martins, Marie-Ange Lelli
Music
Editing
- Editor
- Hervé Guichard
- Online Editing
- Yannick Carrier
Crew
- Design
- Nicolas Brault
- 2D Set Designer
- Gaël Brisou
- Set Research
- Iouri Tcherenkov
- Infography
- Benjamin Bourreau
- Intern 3D
- Juliette Grandjonc
- Sound Editing
- Olivier Calvert
- Foley
- Lise Wedlock
- Recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Re-Recording
- Serge Boivin
- Digital Imaging Specialists
- Susan Gourley, Pierre Plouffe
- Cinematographers
- Sara Sponga, Jean-Pierre Chaligné
- Camera Assistant
- Jérôme Beffay
- Head, Set Design
- Benjamin Lavarone
- Background Intern
- Laurie Granat
- Electrician
- Yann Guerrero
- Grip
- Guillaume Ladevèze
- Makeup Artists
- Héloïse Arnaud, Thibault Breynat
- Hairstylists
- Aurélie Mourier, Erika Bosc
- Model Maker
- Hélène Ducrocq
- Model Maker Intern
- Pauline Alcala
- Production Assistants
- Solenne Blanc, Marion Lucas
- Administrators
- Diane Regimbald, Nelly Gharibian
- Technical Coordinators
- Patrick Tallaron, Julie Laperrière
- Distribution -- Marketing
- Dominique Templier, Christine Noël
Awards
Public Award for Best Canadian Short Film, Montreal World Film Festival, 2010