Pardevant notaire
Marc-Antoine Roudil, Sophie Bruneau
1999 - 71 min - Super 16 mm - Couleur - France, Belgique

Four overlapping cases being handled by a rural law firm in the Haute-Auvergne. The film follows the way it handles two sales transactions, an inventory and an inheritance case. The firm becomes the scene of property and financial deals, private conversations and secret exchanges.
The importance of words and the scrutiny of such details as gestures, attitudes and looks reveal certain ways of relating to the outside world, notably in matters of death and money. The painstakingly detailed approach to this closed notarial world allows us to witness a series of tableaux in several acts, in which the characters and their behavior seem part of another world, so close to our own yet so distant, so different from us yet so like us.

Portrait | Travail | Vie rurale


Author-Director : Marc-Antoine Roudil, Sophie Bruneau
Photography : Antoine-Marie Meert
Sound : Philippe Baudhuin, Yves Capus
Editing : Philippe Boucq
Delegate Producer : ADR Productions
Co-producer : Cobra films
Co-producer : WIP (Wallonie Image Production)
Broadcasting Co-producer : France 2
Contribution : CNC, Procirep, Région Auvergne, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique, Région Wallonne, Télédistributeurs Wallons, Media II (1996-2000)

Distribution


Distributor : ADR Productions
Distributor : WIP (Wallonie Image Production)
VOD : Universciné
Circulation-Consultation : BPI (Bibliothèque publique d'information)
Disponible au Club du doc

Distinctions

2000 - FID (Festival International du Documentaire), Marseille (France) : Mention Spéciale du Jury de la Critique
2000 - Cinéma du réel, Paris (France) : Prix du patrimoine
2000 - Images en bibliothèques, Paris (France) : Film soutenu par la Commission nationale de sélection des médiathèques