Synopsis
Béatrice is waiting on the 33rd floor of a building. She has put up an ad all over the city: “Young heiress, lucid and intelligent, offers a substantial reward to the man who could interest her, move her and seduce her… in that order.”
Attracted by the money, Jean is game to meet the challenge and to play this disconcerting game. He has no idea what he is getting himself into…
Credits
Directors: Amélie Glenn, Filip Piskorzynski
Author of the original work: Carole Fréchette
Screenplay: Amélie Glenn, Nicolas Melocco
Producer: Franck Carle
Cast
Amélie Glenn • Nicolas Melocco
Schedule & Presentation
Presentation by and discussion with director and actress Amélie Glenn, actor Nicolas Melocco & producer Franck Carle
Friday, March 28 – 9:30 p.m. • 1h25 • Parental discretion • In French with English subtitles
More information
Credits : DR
Amélie Glenn
(Director)
Filip Piskorzynski
(Director)
Nicolas Melocco
(Actor)
Choose a picture to see the filmography (source : IMDB)
Jean & Béatrice is an “extra-ordinary” project in many respects: in its form, content, production process and screenplay. It is the first feature film stemming from Kino-meetings, a Quebec film movement whose motto is: “Do well with nothing, do better with little, but do it now.”
It is also a timeless and poetic film, a modern tale relating the story of two strangers trapped in the same room, within the same setting, for an hour and a half.
The film was shot in eleven nights in Hamburg, Germany, with about fifteen young film professionals whose only motivation was their enthusiasm, desire to create and their curiosity for the outcome of this “laboratory test” feature film, never attempted before.
Amélie Glenn
The play Jean et Béatrice came into my life in 2010 and has never left me since. The text, the story and the characters are so intense and universal that I was immediately inspired.
After staging the play for the theater with Nicolas Melocco in Montreal, images of the film kept popping in my head and the screen adaptation of the play became more and more evident. I asked my friend Filip Piskorzynski to co-direct the film with me, because his artistic, poetic, dreamlike and original world exactly matched the images I had in my mind.
Filip Piskorzynski
When Amélie Glenn told me about her idea of making a film of Carole Fréchette’s play Jean et Béatrice, and as soon as she read the first dialogues to me, I knew right away that this challenge was for me.
The text is so true, precise and poetical that I felt suddenly filled with confidence and I saw there an opportunity to be seized. It was the occasion to dive blindly into the text, in enhancing it with images and lighting. I did my best to respect the original text without betraying it, bringing to it everything I had learned, observed and loved these past few years.
