Réalisation:
Nicolas WackerbarthScénario:
Nicolas WackerbarthPhotographie:
Reinhold VorschneiderMusique:
Olivier MellanoActeurs·trices:
Lou Castel, Nathalie Richard, Leonard Proxauf, Maren Kroymann, Jean-Christophe Folly, Anne Ratte-Polle, Emma Bading, Loïc Pichon, Maria Laborit (plus)Résumés(1)
On an overcast summer's day, Merle arrives at her lover Romuald's villa, jacket and luggage in hand, to find the doors are locked. He had invited her to visit him in the south of France but seems to have headed off somewhere. She thus has to come to some arrangement with his uncooperative children, help celebrate Emma's 13th birthday and put up with Felix's impudence, the 16-year-old son who sees her presence as a provocation.
It doesn't take long for the host's absence to become barely noticeable. The plot centres on Merle, on her attempts to fit in, to take on this unexpected role as naturally as possible. In a particularly striking scene, she gets into an argument with the local baker, who refuses to give her a cake ordered for Emma's birthday. Merle loses the battle of wills. When Romuald finally calls, she decides to side with his children rather than her distant lover, and quietly enjoys her breakthrough. With great empathy and subtlety, Nicolas Wackerbarth's Halbschatten creates a portrait of a person ill at ease with being the centre of attention, in the glaring sunlight.
(Berlinale)
Acteurs·trices
Lou Castel
Colombie
Meilleurs films :
Les Poings dans les poches (1965)
Le Guépard (1963)
Le Pont de Cassandra (1976)
Nathalie Richard
France
Meilleurs films :
Haut, bas, fragile (1995)
After Love (2020)
Les Garçons sauvages (2017)
Leonard Proxauf
Allemagne
Meilleurs films :
Le Ruban blanc (2009)
Operation Zucker (2012) (téléfilm)
Aus der Haut (2016) (téléfilm)
Maren Kroymann
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Jean-Christophe Folly
Meilleurs films :
Sans filtre (2022)
Eden à l'ouest (2009)
35 rhums (2008)
Anne Ratte-Polle
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Willenbrock, le roi de l'occase (2005)
Parole donnée (2019)
Shahada (2010)
Emma Bading
Allemagne
Meilleurs films :
Meine teuflisch gute Freundin (2018)
In My Room (2018)
Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Loïc Pichon
Meilleurs films :
La Classe de neige (1998)
Des hommes et des dieux (2010)
Bon voyage (2003)
Maria Laborit
Meilleurs films :
Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Calmos (1976)
Inspecteur la Bavure (1980)
David Fennelly
Meilleurs films :
Killing Bono (2011)
What Richard Did (2012)
Laurent Pons
Meilleurs films :
Cloclo (2012)
À plein temps (2021)
Broken English (2007)
Henry Arnold
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Je voyage seule (2013)
Tatort (1970) (série)
Inga Lindström (2004) (série)