{"id":1296,"date":"2018-02-09T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=1296"},"modified":"2021-03-06T02:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T02:41:50","slug":"i-am-a-soldier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/2022-winners\/awards\/i-am-a-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM A SOLDIER"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I AM A SOLDIER \/<\/strong>\u00a0Je suis un soldat<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518204164208{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n
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West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 96 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: Laurent Larivi\u00e8re
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Fran\u00e7ois Decodts, Laurent Larivi\u00e8re
\nCinematography<\/strong>: David Chizalet
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Marie-Pierre Frappier
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Martin Wheeler
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Dominique Besnehard (Mon Voisin Productions)
\nCast<\/strong>: Louise Bourgoin (Sandrine), Jean-Hugues Anglade (Henri), Anne Beno\u00eet (Martine)
\nInternational Sales:\u00a0<\/strong>Le Pacte \u2022 le-pacte.com<\/p>\n

If you were thinking a willowy leading actress and a lot of cute puppies mean you\u2019re in for a schmaltz fest, think again.\u00a0I am a Soldier<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a hard-hitting drama about a woman compromised by the financial pressures of France\u2019s economic austerity. In a thoughtful, subdued performance, Louise Bourgoin plays Sandrine, a 30-year-old who, after a failed attempt to succeed in Paris, is forced to retreat to Roubaix and the working-class life she\u2019d hoped to escape. Disengaged from the world, she takes a job working at her Uncle Henri\u2019s dog-breeding kennel. Everyone in her immediate circle has money issues, except Henri, and as she soon finds out, that\u2019s because he\u2019s operating an illegal puppy mill. Puppies are smuggled in from Eastern Europe, purchased by weight like meat; the unsold stock disposed of with little more concern. In desperate times money trumps morality and Sandrine stays with it, long enough to discover she has a knack for business. Intoxicated by finding her first real talent in life, Sandrine turns a blind eye to the dark side of the actual business she\u2019s in.<\/p>\n

This year, COLCOA\u2019s\u00a0Focus on a Producer\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0<\/em>dedicated to\u00a0Dominique Besnehard,<\/strong>\u00a0who brings us this debut feature from writer\/director\u00a0Laurent Larivi\u00e8re.<\/strong>\u00a0Shown in competition at the 2015 Cannes\u2019 Un Certain Regard sidebar, Larivi\u00e8re brings together the stylistic approach and techniques he\u2019s honed over the course making a handful of acclaimed shorts such as\u00a0Lightning Struck Me\u00a0<\/em>(2006), and\u00a0Les larmes\u00a0<\/em>(2010). Narrative restraint, naturalistic performances, and economic dialogue all bring to mind his chief influences: \u00a0American James Gray and Belgium\u2019s Dardenne brothers. Parallel to his filmmaking career, Larivi\u00e8re creates films that are part of the stage design for theater and performance pieces. It was at one of his shows that he met and befriended actress Louise Bourgoin (The Girl from Monaco<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 COLCOA 2009,\u00a0Love Lasts Three Years<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 COLCOA 2012.) He wrote the part of Sandrine with Bourgoin in mind, though she was unaware of that when she first read the screenplay. This is also the first feature credit for co-writer Fran\u00e7ois Decodts. He has recently collaborated on a new feature script for\u00a0Heat Wave<\/em>\u00a0(2011) director Jean-Jacques Jauffret.<\/p>\n

QUOTES:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026genuine and suspenseful.\u201d
\n\u2013 Neal Dhand,\u00a0PopOptiq<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026benefits from a tightly wound plot line and a select amount of settings.\u201d
\n\u2013 Piers McCarthy,\u00a0Live For Films<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518207609047{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] I AM A SOLDIER \/\u00a0Je suis un soldat [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518204164208{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2015 DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 96 min Directed by: Laurent Larivi\u00e8re Written by: Fran\u00e7ois Decodts, Laurent Larivi\u00e8re Cinematography: David Chizalet Film Editing: Marie-Pierre Frappier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1296\/revisions\/1331"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}