Yuki & Nina Hippolyte Girardot, Nobuhiro Suwa
Yuki & Nina
Paese/Country: France, Japan
Anno Produzione Film: 2009
Formato/Format: 35mm
Durata/Running Time: 92'
Produzione/Production: Comme des Cinémas, Les Films du Lendemain, ARTE France Cinéma, Bitters End
Produttore/Producer: Kristina Larsen, Masa Sawada
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Hippolyte Girardot, Nobuhiro Suwa
Montaggio/Editing: Laurence Briaud, Hisako Suwa
Fotografia/Cinematography: Josée Deshaies
Sound Editor: Dominique Lacour, Raphaël Girardot, Olivier Dô Huu, Takeshi Ogawa
Musica/Music: Lily Margot, Doc Mateo
Cast: Noë Sampy, Arielle Moutel, Tsuyu Shimizu, Hippolyte Girardot, Marilyne Canto, Jean-Paul Girardot, Koko Mori, Nonoka Imaizumi
Distribuzione/Distribution: Films Distribution
Yuki, 9 ans, apprend que ses parents se séparent. Le père de Yuki est français, sa mère japonaise. Elle devra suivre sa mère au Japon et tout laisser à Paris, à commencer par sa meilleure amie, Nina. Ensemble, elles inventent des stratagèmes destinés à provoquer la réconciliation des parents. Finalement, la fugue leur semble être la seule issue, et la forêt leur nouvelle destination.
Hippolyte GirardotAnno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1955 (Girardot), 1960 (Suwa)
Paese/Country: France (Girardot), Japan (Suwa)
Biografia/Biography:
Hippolyte Girardot
Diplomato alla Scuola nazionale superiore di arti decorative, si dedicò all'apprendimento dell'arte drammatica seguendo i corsi di Andréas Voutsinas ed all'Acting International. La sua carriera inizia con la realizzazione di un certo numero di cortometraggi e debuttando come attore nel film di Yannick Bellon, La Femme de Jean del 1973 (in Italia conosciuto come Una donna...una moglie). La sua carriera non registrerà partecipazioni a pellicole degne di nota fino al 1980 dove partecipa a due film. Yuki & Nina segna il suo debutto alla regia.
Nobuhiro Suwa
Having graduated from Hiroshima Prefectural Hatsukaichi High School (located in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima), Suwa studied at Tokyo Zokei University, under the tutorship of Nobuhiro Kawanaka. While at the college, he began working producing independent films, of which Hanasareru Gang was chosen for the Pia Film Festival. After graduating from Tokyo Zokei, Suwa began directing television documentary films, and worked with directors such as S?go Ishii and Masashi Yamamoto. In 1996, his feature film directorial debut, 2/Duo was released. Suwa's second film, M/Other, was released soon after in 1999, winning the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival and being the subject of several other awards and critical acclaim, both in Japan and internationally. M/Other also won the award for best screenplay at the 50th Mainichi Film Awards. His assistant director in the film was Miwa Nishikawa. Suwa's third feature film, H Story (starring Ko Machida), was released in March 2000. It was a remake of Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour, and had been noted as an audacious attempt at a Nouvelle Vague portrayal of his hometown, Hiroshima. Also during the same year, he guest-appeared in and co-created the Sogo Ishii-directed samurai epic Gojoe Reisenki: GOJEI. In 2005, he directed and wrote Un Couple Parfait (A Perfect Couple), which featured a French cast and crew. The film won the Special Prize of the Jury Award and the C.I.C.A.E. Award at the 58th Locarno Film Festival. Later, in 2006, Suwa participated in the French omnibus film Paris, je t'aime. He directed and wrote the segment representing the IIe arrondissement, filmed at Place des Victoires. Paris, je t'aime was the opening film of the Un Certain Regard selection at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Filmografia/Filmography
Nobuhiro Suwa
2 Dyuo, Japan, 1997, lm
M/Other, Japan, 1999, lm
H Story, Japan, 2001, lm
A Letter from Hiroshima (part of After War), South Korea, 2002, cm
A Perfect Couple, Japan/France, 2005, lm
Place des victories (part of Paris, I Love You), France, 2006, cm
Yuki & Nina, France/Japan, 2009, lm
