Éric Monin

Tourné en pellicule Kodak 35 mm par le directeur de la photographie français Eric Gautier, AFC, The Mercy est basé sur l’histoire vraie de l’homme d’affaires et navigateur américain Donald Crowhurst, et de sa tentative malheureuse de remporter le premier tour du monde sans escale, le Golden Globe du Sunday Times, en 1968. Le directeur de la photographie nous explique comment il a utilisé la pellicule Kodak 35 mm pour offrir au film une esthétique émouvante et sensuelle.

Director Jia Zhangke is one of the most critically acclaimed Chinese director and the one best-loved by international audiences. He has already presented a number of films at Cannes (I Wish I Knew, A Touch of Sin, Mountains May Depart). He entrusted Eric Gautier, AFC, with the cinematography of his last feature-length film. Eric Gautier is the cinematographer of France’s greatest directors (Arnaud Desplechin, Olivier Assayas, Alain Resnais, Patrice Chéreau) and also shot Into the Wild, On the Road, and Hotel Woodstock for Ang Lee. He is accompanying Jia Zhang-ke on his walk up the red carpet at Cannes this year, where the film Ash Is Purest White is in official competition. (BB)

When Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer were awarded the Molière Award for Best Solo Performance in 2016 for Les Chatouilles, a play about sexual abuse of children, they didn’t know they’d be back at Cannes two years later with the eponymous film they co-directed. Surrounding themselves with a shock team for their first movie, they called on cinematographer Pierre Aïm, AFC, who had shot Maïwen’s Polisse, a film that strangely resonates with Little Tickles… The film is being presented in the Un Certain Regard section (BB)