De bruit et de fureur

Sound and Fury | Lärm und Wut

Retrospective 2023

After his grandmother dies, Bruno returns to live with his mother on the 15th floor of a tower block in the housing projects of Bagnolet in Paris. His mother is gone all day, so the teenager has to make do with written instructions she leaves behind. His only intimate is a canary named Superman, who secretly pilots the boy through erotic dreams and night-time realms. In real life, Bruno faces school days filled with brutality. He makes friends with the worst of the trouble-makers, Jean-Roger. The delinquent gets his kicks setting homeless people on fire, following the lead of his father, a giant of a man with a penchant for weapons and brawling. When Bruno’s teacher starts giving him extra tutoring, Jean-Roger is engulfed with frenzied jealousy … Director Jean-Claude Brisseau was himself a teacher in Bagnolet and delivers a realistic depiction of the social misery in the Paris banlieues. Yet his film about youthful gang warfare and a cross-generational savagery also incorporates lyrical exaggeration and surreal violence. In his critique of grotesque social circumstances, he uses gallows humour to highlight the perverse conditions to which the dreamer Bruno will finally fall victim.

by Jean-Claude Brisseau
with Bruno Cremer, François Négret, Vincent Gasperitsch, Fabienne Babe, Lisa Hérédia (= María Luisa García), Fejria Deliba, Thierry Hélaine, Victoire Buff, Aurélie Sterling, Albert Montias, France 1988 French 95’ Colour Rating R16

For the 2023 Retrospective, internationally renowned directors, actors, and screenwriters were asked to select their personal coming-of-age favourites.
Nadav Lapid on his selection

With

Bruno Cremer
François Négret
Vincent Gasperitsch
Fabienne Babe
Lisa Hérédia (= María Luisa García)
Fejria Deliba
Thierry Hélaine
Victoire Buff
Aurélie Sterling
Albert Montias

Crew

Director	Jean-Claude Brisseau
Screenplay	Jean-Claude Brisseau
Cinematography	Romain Winding
Editing	María Luisa García, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Annick Hurst
Sound	Dominique Hennequin, Louis Gimel
Art Director	María Luisa García
Costumes	María Luisa García
Make-Up	Florence Cossutta
Producer	Margaret Ménégoz

Produced by

Les Films du Losange

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Additional information

DCP: Les Films du Losange, Paris