NOIR OCÉAN - OCEAN BLACK
Official Selection
Belgium, France, Germany 2010, 90', 35mm, colour
directed by Marion Hänsel
screenplay Marion Hänsel, based on two short stories by Hubert Mingarelli, from the collection Océan Pacifique cinematography Jan Vancaillie editing Michèle Hubinon music René Marc Bini sound Henri Morelle art direction Thierry Leproust cast Nicolas Robin (Massina), Adrien Jolivet (Moriaty), Romain David (Da Maggio), Nicolas Gob (Mayer)
producer Marion Hänsel, CedomirKolar, Marc Baschet, Ernst Szebedits, Elena Trifonova production Man’s Films co-production A.S.A.P. Films, Neue Pegasos
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synopsis
Three young boys aboard a French naval vessel in 1972 will participate dramatically in the nuclear testing in Mururoa, in the Pacific. "I would like to make a dense but subtle film, charged with emotion and tenderness for these boys who already feel like my sons. A brief sentence closes Mingarelli’s second short story. The narrator, a boy of eighteen, says, 'Then I have cried for all the mother’s who don’t know how much we suffer.' The film will answer him almost like an echo: 'I cry for all the sons who do not know how much we suffer for (with) them.'" (Marion Hänsel)
Marion Hänsel’s films have often surprised us for their modernity and for stylistic approaches that are as unmistakable as they are always diverse. Abroad a navy vessel, immersed in the daily lives of young men of yesterday so similar to those of today (yet still possessing an innocence that has since then been lost forever), she leads us on an inner journey of subtle delicacy. The history written around the three main characters is the kind that forces one to become an adult, with a remote echo of nostalgia for lost opportunities. (Giorgio Gosetti)
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