PRODUCTION SAGA Production Agnieszka ... - Un autre homme
PRODUCTION SAGA Production Agnieszka ... - Un autre homme
PRODUCTION SAGA Production Agnieszka ... - Un autre homme
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LIONEL BAIER<br />
Lionel Baier was born on 13 December 1975 in Lausanne, into a Swiss<br />
family of Polish extraction.<br />
From 1992 onwards, he programmed and co-managed the Rex Movie<br />
Theatre in Aubonne (Switzerland).<br />
Between 1995 and 1999, he studied at the Faculty of Arts at Lausanne<br />
<strong>Un</strong>iversity. Since 2002 Lionel Baier has been in charge of the cinema<br />
section at ECAL (<strong>Un</strong>iversity of Art and Design, Lausanne). His first two<br />
fiction features, “Stupid Boy” and “Stealth”, were internationally distributed<br />
in several European countries as well as in the USA, and were also shown<br />
at countless festivals around the world. They were warmly received both by<br />
the critics and the public.<br />
“Another Man” is Lionel Baier’s third fiction feature.<br />
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT<br />
I remember seeing Truffaut’s “The Mississipi Mermaid” one evening in the<br />
summer of ’88. I was twelve years old. And that night, my parents’ old Phillips<br />
TV set really suited my yearnings. It was all there: a double life, masquerade,<br />
enigma, car, snow, violence and, above all, the bodies of Catherine Deneuve<br />
and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The tense virility of a man shot to convey boyish<br />
bashfulness, along a woman with an upright self-assuredness. All of which<br />
seemed to meet my own budding desire.<br />
That desire is what led me to direct Robin Harsch and Natacha<br />
Koutchoumov in “Another Man”. Then came the snow, the car, the fraud, the<br />
double life, the sex and the violence. Implicitly, my instructions to my whole<br />
little team was to disregard my script and put their heart and soul into acting<br />
out every second of it. Lacking any money, we staked our bets on our desire<br />
and energy. I have tried to express in images the turmoil that, experienced at<br />
age 12, put an end to my childhood for good.<br />
Lionel Baier<br />
FILMOGRAPHY<br />
2008 Another Man (feature)<br />
2007 Continuité nationale (short)<br />
2006 Stealth (East) (feature)<br />
2004 Stupid Boy (feature)<br />
2002 Mon père, c’est un lion (Jean Rouch, pour mémoire) (short)<br />
2001 The Parade (Our Story) (doc)<br />
2000 The Pastor’s (My Personal Vision of Things) (doc)<br />
1999 Mignon à croquer (short)
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