QUAND LA MER MONTE
WHEN THE SEA RISES

Director:
Gilles Porte
Yolande Moreau

Screenplay:
Gilles Porte
Yolande Moreau

Cast:
Irène: Yolande Moreau
Dries: Wim Willaert
The Policeman: Olivier Gourmet
The Journalist: Jackie Berroyer

Awards:
Best First Film, Prix Louis Delluc ( 2004) Best First Film, Best Actress, César Awards (2005)

Running time: 90’
Production: Belgium / France, 2004
Rating: Not Rated
(very brief nudity)
Gauge: 35mm (color)

Distributor:
New Yorker Films




“Approaches the eloquence of Fellini’s Strada. As you study Ms. Moreau’s features, the actress reveals so many layers of emotional complexity that her face becomes a map of the world careworn, childlike and profoundly beautiful.”
Stephen Holden, The New York Times

When the Sea Rises tells the story of Irène (Moreau), a 45-year-old actress travelling from one small town to another with her one-woman show, “Dirty Business.” Slyly funny in her masked onstage persona, Irene is a genial pro at touring alone, phoning home to her husband and child and sleeping in a new hotel each night. Things change when a scooter-driving vagabond named Dries fixes her stalled car. After accepting an invitation to her show, Dries soon appears at every stop on her tour as her “randomly selected” audience participant. What develops is a remarkably natural and tender affair between two true eccentrics, their exuberance and playfulness mixing with a mature, mutual longing.

 
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