IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
IFFI-2008 - International Film Festival of India
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<strong>IFFI</strong>-<strong>2008</strong><br />
CINEMA OF THE WORLD<br />
France<br />
Inju, The Beast in the Shadow /<br />
Inju, La Bête Dans L'ombre<br />
Alex Fayard, a young and charismatic French novelist, has garnered fame by<br />
appropriating the literary style <strong>of</strong> the great Japanese author Shundei Oe. Riding high<br />
on the wave <strong>of</strong> his recent bestselling book, Fayard visits Japan, where strange dreams<br />
and encounters, plus his intimate knowledge <strong>of</strong> Oe's violent and disturbing work,<br />
convince him that he is being stalked by the elusive writer. One evening he<br />
encounters Tamao, a beautiful geisha. She claims to be an ex-lover <strong>of</strong> Oe, and is<br />
convinced he now wants her dead. Falling for the enigmatic Tamao, Fayard finds<br />
himself drawn deeper and deeper into a chaotic underground world <strong>of</strong> killings and<br />
false clues before learning the truth about his inspiration and foe. This film is based<br />
on a novel by the great Japanese noir writer Edogawa Rampo, best known as the<br />
author <strong>of</strong> Black Lizard, which was adapted twice in the 1960s into raucous films by<br />
Umeji Inoue and Kinji Fukasakut.<br />
<strong>2008</strong>, 35 mm, Colour, 105 mins, French-Japanese<br />
Director<br />
Barbet Schroeder<br />
Screenplay<br />
Jean-Armand Bougrelle, Frédérique Henri, Barbet Schroeder<br />
Cinematography<br />
Luciano Tovoli<br />
Editor<br />
Luc Barnier<br />
Music<br />
Jorge Arriagada<br />
Cast<br />
Benoît Magimel (Alex Fayard), Lika Minamoto (Tamao), Ryo<br />
Ishibashi, Kazuhiko Nishimura, Gen Shimaoka, Shun Sugata,<br />
Tomonobu Fukui, Erika Nibo<br />
Production Design<br />
Fumio Ogawa<br />
Sound<br />
Jean-Paul Mugel, Francis Wargnier, Dominique Hennequin<br />
Costumes<br />
Milena Canonero<br />
Production<br />
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World Sales<br />
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www.ugc.fr<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>s & Awards<br />
Venice, Toronto<br />
(<strong>Film</strong> Courtesy UTV World Movies)<br />
Barbet Schroeder is a French filmmaker and actor born in Tehran, Iran. He is the<br />
founder <strong>of</strong> the production company Les <strong>Film</strong>s du Losange, which produced some <strong>of</strong> the<br />
best-known films <strong>of</strong> the French New Wave. His credits as director include Barfly (1987),<br />
Reversal <strong>of</strong> Fortune (1990), Kiss <strong>of</strong> Death (1995), Before and After (1995), Desperate<br />
Measures(1998), Our Lady <strong>of</strong> the Assassins(2000), Murder by Numbers (2002), and<br />
L'Avocat de la terreur(2007). Schroeder has always been drawn to exotically diverse<br />
material - and his directorial career encompasses the stories <strong>of</strong> Charles Bukowski, Idi<br />
Amin, Claus von Bülow, Klaus Barbie and Koko the guerrilla, and that boasts films shot<br />
in France, the United States, New Guinea, Uganda, Japan and Colombia.<br />
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