Pauline Grandeur Nature

Genre: Drama

Langues: French

Subtitles : English

Format: HD

Sound : 5.1

Duration: 95′

Countries : Switzerland, Belgium

Year: 2024

SYNOPSIS

Pauline juggles her children and her job as a landscaper, where she has to fight to find a place for herself in a man’s world. Her life is turned upside down when her mother tells her she’s leaving to live abroad and will no longer be looking after her children, and then becomes downright rock’n’roll when she wins the management of a major site. On all fronts, her life takes a turn for the worse. Will Pauline be able to bounce back, assert herself and find her place? It’s in summer that everything ends and everything comes to light.

CREDITS

Director : Nadège de Benoit-Luthy

Script writer : Nadège de Benoit-Luthy, Nicolas Pleskof, Catherine Paillé

Image: Dino Berguglia

Sound : Marc Thill

Art designer : Margaux Renvoisé

Costume designer: Julie Chenevard

Make up artist : Virginie Pernet

Editor : Myriam Rachmuth

Casting : Déborah François, Thibaut Evrard, Jo Deseure,  Jean-Henri Compère, Baptiste Gilliéron, Sophie Breyer.

FESTIVALS

DIRECTOR

Born in Morges (Switzerland) in 1977, Nadège de Benoit-Luthy studied film at the ÉCAL – École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, graduating in 2003. Her diploma film, Petit(s) cadavres(s) personnel( s) , was selected for the Locarno Festival in 2003 and the Solothurn Film Festival in 2004. She then directed Ménagerie intérieure (2007) and Orages d’été (2014), both co-produced by France and Switzerland. Ménagerie intérieure, a portrait of a young woman in her twenties who has to find her place and assert herself, was selected at Angers, the Festival Tout Écran in Geneva and Amiens, and won the ‘Cinema e Gioventù’ prize for best Swiss short film at Locarno in 2007. Orages d’été, a summer short examining the disintegration of a couple, had its world premiere at the Porny Days Film Kunst Festival in Zurich, then went on to be shown at festivals including Locarno, Bilbao and Lille, and won the Best Screenplay Prize at FIKE – Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de Évora.

Pauline Grandeur Nature is her first feature film.