Mad in Belgium
Yves Montmayeur
A cinematographic “cadavre exquis”, whose entrails reveal the odd nature of a (un)certain Belgian cinema. Authors, directors, actors who have proved that imposture could be an act of creation. Convinced that any so-called “new” cinematographic production was in fact a rehash of what had already been made, these pirates of images snuck as forgers, liars, tricksters, usurpers, … Outlaws of the cinema who falsified its form. From the filmed imposture of Man Bites Dog to Jan Bucquoy’s fabulist biopic, everything participates in the dynamiting of institutional language through simulacrum and absurdity. This free journey in the “cine-belgitude” has for vocation to approach these marvellous eccentrics followers of a overexcited and stripping situationism
In the presence of the director
National premiere
STARRING
Benoit Poelvoorde
Bouli Lanners
Xavier SĂ©ron
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Stéphane Aubier
Jan Bucquoy
Noël Godin
Vincent Patar
Olivier Smolders
Vincent Tavier
Fabrice du Welz
WRITER
Yves Montmayeur
DIRECTOR
Yves Montmayeur
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Yves Montmayeur
SOUND
Yves Montmayeur
FILM EDITING
Matthieu Brunel
MUSIC
Stock Hausen and Walkman
PRODUCTION
Beall Productions & Panique!
With the participation of: Ciné+, VOO, Betv et TV 5 Monde
Coproduction : Shelter Prod
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ING
tax shelter
gouvernent Belgium
CNC
Procirep-Angoa
DISTRIBUTION
Beall Productions
Yves Montmayeur
Director of documentary films on cinema.
He won the Golden Lion for Best Documentary at the Venice Film Festival in 2015 with the portrait of Canadian director Guy Maddin, “The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin“.He is also the author of a portrait of Michael Haneke, “Michael H. Profession: director“, which will be released in many countries, as well as a dozen documentaries on Asian cinema, including “Ghibli and the Mystery of Miyazaki” (Arte, 2005), “In the Mood for Doyle” (on Wong Kar- wai’s cinematographer, Arte, 2006), “Yakuza eiga” (Arte, 2009) and “Dragon Girls: asian warriors in pop culture” (Arte, 2016). He has just finished a portrait of the director Takeshi Kitano (Arte 2020) and a web documentary on Martial Arts and political movements ‘Kung Fu Revolution(s)’. Yves Montmayeur is also a journalist and conducts numerous Master Classes at international film festivals from Cannes to Rangoon (Michelle Yeoh, Nicolas Winding Refn, Tilda Swinton, Zhang Ziyi…). Finally, Yves is also the author of TV reports on contemporary art, Japanese pop culture and cinema for Tracks program broadcast on Arte TV.”
FILMOGRAPHY
2005 : GHIBLI AND THE MIYAZAKI MYSTERY (DOCUMENTARY)
2009 : IN THE MOOD FOR DOYLE (DOCUMENTARY)
2013 : MICHAEL HANEKE. PROFESSION: DIRECTOR (DOCUMENTARY)
2015 : THE 1000 EYES OF DR MADDIN (DOCUMENTARY)
2019 : VARIATIONS KAWASE (DOCUMENTARY)
2020 : CITIZEN KITANO (DOCUMENTARY)
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