Jeanne Balibar and Pierre Léon roam in tourist outfits through Paris and prepare a play with a producer who keeps changing her clothes. In a parallel world, another layer if you wish, actors rehearse their texts for a Greek tragedy on the beach at Deauville and at prominent Parisian locations. It is the story of Electra, probably a rather inefficient character, one who perseveres and refuses to give up the battle against injustice.
This absurd, slightly surrealist and occasionally humorous film looks like a theatre performance with its solemn dialogues and mise-en-scène issues. The makers, the actress Balibar and filmmaker Léon, however also use the medium by inserting screenshots of business e-mails - reflections on their plans. In addition, Balibar is a singer and she sings the texts as if the e-mails were edifying lieder. Electra, for Instance is, as one of the characters puts it, a true ‘culture souq’.
- Directors
- Jeanne Balibar, Pierre Léon
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2012
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 80'
- Medium
- Betacam Digi PAL
- International title
- Electra, for Instance
- Language
- French
- Producer
- Martine Marignac
- Production Company
- Pierre Grise Productions
- Sales
- Pierre Grise Productions
- Screenplay
- Jeanne Balibar, Pierre Léon
- Cinematography
- Sébastien Buchmann, Jeanne Lapoirie
- Editor
- Martial Salomon, Pierre Léon
- Sound Design
- Maxence Dussère, Mathieu Descamps, Jean Mallet
- Cast
- Barbet Schroeder, Jeanne Balibar, Pierre Léon