SYNOPSIS
Shot on location (Montmorency, Môtiers-Travers) where Rousseau wrote his major texts and faced rejection and exile (1760-1770), in the form of filmed chronicle, the film recalls these painful episodes and tries to better understand the often touchy and distant character of the writer. Composed with overlooked musical short pieces, engravings, portraits and extracts of works, the film is an original contribution for the Rousseau tercentenary birthday in 2012.
CAST & CREW
Patrick Cazals
Director
Producer(s)
Claudine Arnould-Cazals
Script
Patrick Cazals
Director of Photography
Jacques Malnou
Music by
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sound
Thibault Arnold
Edit
Eric Beaufils
Cast
Raymond Trousson, Yolande Crowe, Angèle Kapoïan, Roland Kaehr, Frederic S. Eigeldinger
Production company(ies)
Les Films du Horla
Patrick Cazals
Cazals studied philosophy and film at Sorbonne. In 1987 he founded his own company: Les Films du Horla. From 1987 to 1995, he contributed to Liberation and Cahiers du Cinema and from 1989-2004 he worked as a radio producer to France Culture. Cazals assisted Claude Miller in The Accompanist (1992) and Otar Iosseliani on his Arte projects. He wrote five books and as a filmmaker and producer he has created fifty documentaries and portraits since 1976.
Filmography
Sergei Paradjanov, a Portrait (1988), Doisneau in Towns, Doisneau in Fields (1993), Bohumil Hrabal (1995), Amrita Sher-Gil, an Indian Rhapsody (2002), Sartre and de Beauvoir Tribulations to Caucasus (2003), Sergei Paradjanov, the Rebel (2005) Arthur Rimbaud, Cyprus Poste Restante (2006), Rouben Mamoulian, the Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood (2007), Hurricane Kalatozov (2010), The Armenian Coat of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012), Musidora, the Tenth Muse (2013).
