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104’(short version: 80’) - 35 mm – 1.66 - black & white – 25 f/s – dolby SRD
In France, between Paris and Le Havre, rockers still dream of a land
that doesn’t exist - America.
Director: Lucile Chaufour
Production: Supersonicglide
You can download a pdf version of the complete reviews here.
INTERNATIONAL PRESS
“I was listening to a film reviewer on the radio recently and on lamenting the state of what’s around on our screens they pleaded in desperation “show me something new!”Well here it is. We love this film...lean, stark, packed with great and low key performances and dripping with great and authentic 50s rock sounds, Violent Days harks back to the loose stylings of the 60s French New Wave with the added punch of today’s underground youth movements.
Very, very atmospheric and with a real honest edge that most low-budget films find difficult to find, Violent Days is a real rough and rare gem - just the way we like them”
Australian Premiere
“Violent Days is shot in black and white, and Lunn’s suicide-blonde hair and pale dress give her an ethereal quality—contrasted with the dark sunglasses and leather jackets of her boyfriend and his mates, she seems to radiate light. Chaufour’s vérité style and empathy for the subject make for a dignified, artful rendering of this explosive scene.”
Brisbane IFF
“Tense, poetic and gorgeously shot in black and white, verité style, Violent Days feels intriguingly out of time, displaying a number of generation crossing influences, referencing Godard’s notion of cool, Lindsay Anderson’s astute observations, and at other points bringing to mind American pioneers Cassavetes, Clarke and Jarmusch.”
The Times London Film festival BFI
“The result is a film in which the bluntness of the depiction harmonizes perfectly with these underprivileged youths violence as everyday pastime. And last but not least: emerging from this gloomy, melancholy, old-fashioned atmosphere is the beautiful, tragic portrait of a woman, played by Serena Lunn”
Berlin Film Festival
“Violent Days, a seemingly rambling but ultimately pointed French indieindie,
Chaufour’s skill is in maintaining a potentially explosive atmosphere in which anything could happen at anytime”
Variety
“The movie is good for a number of reasons. It does a great job of capturing what most underground music scenes are like. The feeling of being ‘in the club’ and so on. The best part of the film though is the performance by Serena Lunn.”
Rockin’ Tim’s House o’ Culture
You can download a pdf version of the complete French reviews here.
You can download the full credits (pdf) here.
A film by Lucile Chaufour
104’ (short version: 80’) - 35 mm – 1.66 - black & white – 25 f/s – dolby SRD
With Frédéric Beltran, Franck Musard, François Mayet, Serena Lunn
and the groups Flying Saucers, Bad Crows, Hillbilly Cats.
Script & Direction: Lucile Chaufour
Cinematography: Bertrand Mouly, Dominique Texier, Nicolas Eprendre
Camera operators: Christophe Neuville, Arnaud Leguy
Sound: Xavier Pierouel, Raoul Fruhauf
Sound mixing: Daniel Sobrino
Editing: Élisabeth Juste, Albane Penaranda, Sophie Bousquet
Sound editing: Pascal Ribier
Titles & effects: Ronan Jupin
Original music: Lucile Chaufour, Thomas Couzinier
Production: Supersonicglide
With the participation of le Centre national de la cinématographie, le Conseil général d’Île-de-France and le Conseil général du Val-de-Marne.
Addtional music:
Guitar rock (Bill Flagg), The girl can't dance (Bunker Hill), Rockin in the nursery (Sally Star), Mercy (Ray King), My babe (Willie Dixon), Rock around the town (Dean Beard), Come on little mama (Ray Harris/W.Cogswell), I need a man (Barbara Pittman), We wanna boogie (Sonny Burgess), Cotton pickers (Watts/Richardson), Gotta gimme wha't cha got (Julia Lee), She's my baby (Billy Lee Riley), Little red riding hood (Bunker Hill), I can't be satisfied (Muddy Waters), Crawdad Hole (Jack Earls), White cat lady (Bad Crows), Big Black Bike (Bad Crows), The road is so long (Bad Crows), Matchbox (Carl Perkins), Move my way (Hillbilly Cats), Summertime blues (J.Capeheart/Eddy Cochran), I think of you (Hillbilly Cats), Rockin in the Coconut Top (Hop Wilson), Jig-Ga-Lee-Ga (Rudy P. Grayzell), Give a little lovin' (Flying'Saucers), Bertha Lou (Marascalco), Old Black Joe (Traditionnel), Who slapped John (Gene Vincent/Tex Davis), Love's to blame (Flying'Saucers), Bop-a-lena (M. Tillis), Peggy Sue (J.Allison/Buddy Holly/N.Petty), I can't give you... (Mc Hugh / Field), Rollin' and Ridin' (Daligaux/Beudin/Noël/Grandin), Ghost train (Revelle/Libby/Jones), Injustices (C. Clauet).
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