the smell of
melon in a dustbin
Directed by Julien Donada, 2002
SYNOPSIS
On the road: five people in two cars, are on their way to a wedding in Nevers. As soon as they get there, they start a big argument. But the actual problem is that the bride and groom are little late.
Cast
Artus DE PENGUERN
Sabine BAIL
Pierre LACAN
Antoine CHAIN
Marie PAYEN
Technical team
Written and directed by
Julien DONADA
Photography
Sylvia CALLE
Editing
Tatiana JANKOVIC
Sound
Laurent BENAÏM
Score
Pascal TRYSTAM
Technical data
Festivals
Fiction - France - 2002
16' - 35 mm – Colours
1.66 – Dolby SR
Version
French
Festival Fenêtres sur Courts de Dijon / France
Festival de Nevers à l’Aube de Nevers / France
Festival Tout Court de Caen / France
Fête du Court Métrage de Contis / France
Rencontres Internationales du Court Métrage
de Saint Benoît de La Réunion / France
Production
Nicolas BREVIERE – Local Films
CFRT-France 2
Distribution
Local Films Distribution
International sales
Local Films Distribution
Material
TRAILER
Born in Antibes. Julien Donada is a filmmaker and photographer. The common point between his fictional films, documentaries and photography: architecture, town planning and therefore the city.
Urban space is a great playground, documentary, photographic and fictional:
It is around the magnetic personality of an actor, that of Daniel Duval, that Beau Rivage is built in his first feature film. Always anxious to film architectures in a singular way, Donada creates a suffocating frame, catalyzing the obsessions of his character, who invents a past from scratch. The resurgence of a bygone era was, moreover, a resurgent motif of several of the director's short films. (Hôtel Provençal, summer 76, (2007), A San Rémo (2003) etc.
Among the films made, we will note the LM: “Beau Rivage” (2011), and several often personal documentaries: “Un sol brûlante sous nos pas” (2022) “Divine Victorine” (2019) but also “La folle histoire du Center Pompidou” "(2017), the strange story of an urban experience (2016), the Unal house (2014) etc ...