Dix ans après la fin de l’apartheid, au sein d’une mission française installée au pied des somptueuses montagnes du Drakensberg, une communauté de sud-africains noirs et blancs tente de vivre dans l’oubli des violents affrontements dont chacun porte encore en secret les blessures. Le passé va ressurgir et briser le silence, mettant en péril le fragile équilibre de la réconciliation et les rêves un peu fous des plus innocents.

Un film de Alain Choquart

Avec Peter Sarsgaard, Jérémie Renier, Emily Mortimer

Genre : Drame
Nationalité : Français, sud-africain, belge
Durée : 1h49min
Année de production : 2014
Année de sortie en salles : 2015



ACTEURS / ACTRICES
Peter Sarsgaard > Rôle : Samuel
Jérémie Renier > Rôle : Mattis
Emily Mortimer > Rôle : Olive
Claude Rich > Rôle : Henri
Liam Cunningham > Rôle : Angus
Jude Foley > Rôle : Waldo
Sibongile Mlambo > Rôle : Estelle
Aura Msimang > Rôle : Madame Borgman
Andrian Mambiza…


Durée 1h49
Format Scope – 5.1
Visa 129.577

Réalisateur : Alain Choquart

Scénariste
Alain Choquart d’après deux romans d’Hubert Mingarelli

Co-scénariste
Laurence Coriat

Compositeur
Peter Von Poehl

Montage
Pierre Haberer

Son
Marc Engels, Marc Bastien, David Vranken, Luc Thomas

Image
Nigel Bluck

Décors
Birrie Le Roux

Producteur délégué
Bertrand Faivre

Coproducteurs
Theresa Ryan Van Graan
Genevieve Hofmeyr
Patrick Quinet

Une Production
Le Bureau

Une Co-production
Moonlighting (Afrique du Sud)
Artémis Productions (Belgique)

Distributeur : Rezo Films

Date de sortie (France) : 6 mai 2015

2015 | 32nd Miami International Film Festival
* Sélection – Spotlight on French Cinema
* International Premiere / Première Internationale
* Projection/SHOWTIMES: Tuesday March 10th @ 9:30pm CINEPOLIS
* Projection/SHOWTIMES: Wednesday March 11th @ 6:45pm MDC’S TOWER THEATER PRESENTED BY VIENDOMOVIES (THEATER 2)
www.miamiff-tickets.com/films/ladygrey/

Ten years after the end of Apartheid. Inside a French mission established at the foot of the magnificent Drakensberg Mountains, a community of black and white South Africans tries to live without recalling the violent clashes of the past that have left their secret scars on everyone. The past will suddenly emerge and break the silence, endangering the fragile balance of reconciliation and the slightly crazy dreams of the community’s most innocent members.

A Feature film by Alain Choquart

France / South Africa / Belgium, 2015, Fiction, 1h49min

NOTE OF THE PROGRAMMER
Ten years after the end of apartheid, a sense of unease and dread still permeates a South African community at the foot of the Drakensberg mountains, where an unsolved massacre from years before continues to haunt the villagers. In this fraught milieu, Estelle (Sibongile Mlambo) fights to maintain her spirited sense of self, while carrying for the mentally incapacitated Mattis (Jeremie Renier), and sleeping with the powerful British landowner Angus (Liam Cunningham) for money. The brutish Angus bullies his beautiful and bewildered wife Olive (Emily Mortimer) and exploits the neediness of his day laborers, including Samuel (Peter Sarsgaard), who is raising a young son after the death of his wife.

Maintaining a fragile peace is a French mission, continuing to work for reconciliation between the black and white residents. It’s in the harshly beautiful killing fields of the Great Escarpment, however, that a final reckoning for all characters will arrive. – Jaie Laplante (MIAMIFF 2015)


Produced by Le Bureau – Le Petit Bureau

Release in France : 06/05/2015

Country: Belgium, France, South Africa
Language: English, French, Zulu
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 109min
Production Year: 2014

Director: Alain Choquart
Producer: Bertrand Faivre
Screenwriter: Alain Choquart
Cinematographer: Nigel Bluck
Editor: Pierre Haberer

Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Emily Mortimer, Liam Cunningham, Jérémie Renier, Claude Rich

Associate production company : Le Bureau – Le Petit Bureau
Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau
Foreign production companies : Moonlighting Films, Artémis Productions
French distribution : Rezo Films


2015 | 32nd Miami International Film Festival
* Selection – Category: Spotlight on French Cinema
* International Premiere
* SHOWTIMES: Tuesday March 10th @ 9:30pm CINEPOLIS
* SHOWTIMES: Wednesday March 11th @ 6:45pm MDC’S TOWER THEATER PRESENTED BY VIENDOMOVIES (THEATER 2)
www.miamiff-tickets.com/films/ladygrey/