Day 35. L’Art de la Guerre (extrait) (2012)

L’Art de la Guerre (extrait)

English Title

     The Art of War (extract)

Director

     François Yang

Year

     2012

Form

     Extract—only a snippet (two scenes) of the screenplay was made as part of the Emergence project (information about Emergence below).

Duration

     4 minutes

Synopsis

    After his father's death, a son returns to the Chinese origins that he has always denied. By investigating the mysterious disappearance of his father, he falls madly in love with a girl of Chinese origin whom he believed to be his cousin. Confused by more hallucinations, shared family secrets and passionate feelings, the time is up to the choice between two cultures, two life choices, two women...

L’Art de la Guerre (extrait)

Godfather for Emergence

• Tron Anh-Hung

with

• Frédéric Siuen
• Xin Wang
• Adéle Haenel

Casting director

•  Christel Baras

Adèle’s role

Eloane, Alex’ girlfriend.

The film

Notes

The Emergence Program

The Emergence program is an awesome program within the French cinema industry to nurture and develop the talents of promising directors, actors, & composers.

The Emergence Director’s program

The director is mentored and works with a team of professional actors and technical experts, as well as being mentored by an established director (‘godmother’/‘godfather’/sponsor) to make a snippet of their proposed feature film. They create two scenes from the screenplay that they want to make into a feature film. The snippet (extrait) that is today’s Adèle Haenel Film Festival offering was directed by François Yang. He went on to make the film L’Ame du Tigre (The Soul of the Tiger) (2016), from the screenplay. Christel Baras was casting director for this feature film, as well as the extrait made as part of the Emergence 2012 program.

L'Ame du Tigre (2016)—Bande Annonce

About the Emergence Program

“Élisabeth Depardieu, 20 years ago, had the idea of adapting for France what Robert Redford had created at Sundance: a staging lab for projects of first feature films.

Emergence offers the only residency in Europe centered on filming: the selected directors shoot two scenes from their screenplay with their real actors and their technical teams, in natural settings. This singular and collective adventure, the image of their scenario, allows them to significantly advance their feature film in development.”

“Revealing and supporting promising filmmakers, and with them supporting new talents, new generations of screenwriters, composers, actors, technicians, producers, is the heart of Emergence.”

“The directors selected at the Résidence Cinéma are advancing their first feature film project by sharing a singular and unique experience: shooting scenes, surrounding themselves with their technical team, making staging choices, directing the actors, seeing their scenario in images, in pictures. Participating in emergence means turning to learn more about your characters, your script and then continue writing, confirming or reconsidering your intentions, your desires for staging.

In this collective adventure, the young filmmakers interact with their producers, their teams but also among themselves. Each feeds on the work of the other.
During the 7 months of residency, the directors benefit from consultations on writing, casting, staging, music, editing, sound editing.”

Emergence: Connections to Adèle Haenel

• Bénédicte Couvreur, producer for all of Céline Sciamma’s films, was part of the selection panel for Emergence from 2002-2012.
• People who we have met on our Adèle Haenel Film Festival journey with who have sponsored young filmmakers as part of the Emergence directors’ program include:
• Céline Sciamma
• Xavier Beauvois (the head of the jury at La Femis when Céline Sciamma was graduating. He encouraged her to direct Naissance des Pieuvres. He was also an actor in L’Apollonide)
• Bertrand Bonello
• Noémie Lvovsky
• Directors whose work we have viewed a part of the Adèle Haenel Film Festival who have benefitted from the opportunities that Emergence offers them as beginning directors include:
• Caroline Deruas, Les Enfant de la Nuit
• Lea Fehner, Les Ogres
• Katell Quillévéré, Suzanne
• Pierre Schoeller, Un Peuple Son Roi
• Elie Wajeman, Alyah (this was his Emergence project)
• François Yang, L’Art de la Guerre (extrait)
• Adèle was involved in the Emergence program twice—more in coming days!

Some images

[These images are via Marie Augustin photography, the images are hosted on her site.]