Un pique-nique chez Osiris

Picnic With Osiris

The year is 1898. The Dreyfus affair is headline news in all the papers. Héloïse Ancelin, 19, is from a rich, anti-semite Parisian family. Rebelling against her hated father, who has never shown any love for her and who terrorises and cheats on her submissive mother, Mathilde, Héloïse falls in love with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During one particularly bitter argument, Héloïse's father has a heart attack and dies. In the eyes of the rest of the family, Héloïse killed him. At a family meeting, it is decided that her mother will take her on a long journey to separate her from Maxime. Her austere cousin, Olympe, will join them. The three women leave Paris and the stifling atmosphere of European high society. In Egypt, they discover a different world made of startling images, hot sun, flamboyant colours and intoxicating aromas, inhabited by people with totally different customs. Far from the judgmental gaze of their peers, Héloïse, Mathilde and Olympe find themselves and, at the dawn of a new century, finally give full rein to their convictions and desires.

France / Belgium - 2000 - 2 x 1 h 40 mn - Super 16 mm • 1,66 - Colour

Réalisation
Nina Companeez
Scénario
Nina Companeez
Image
Dominique Brabant
Son
Dominique Pauvros
Décors
Yves de Marseille
Montage
Michelle Hollander
Musique
Bruno Bontempelli
Interprétation
Dominique Blanc, Dominique Reymond, Marina Hands, Jean-Claude Drouot, Daniel Mesguish, Samuel Labarthe, Anny Duperey, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Production
Ciné Mag Bodard,
19, rue Montrosier,
92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4745 5790
Fax : +33 (0)1 4747 0762
E-mail : cinemagbodard@noos.fr

Co-Production
France 2, Saga Film Productions, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française, Société Française de Production

Ventes
Société Française de Production,
Département Distribution,
2, avenue de l'Europe,
94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 49 83 36 02
Fax : +33 (0)1 49 83 36 04
E-mail : distribution@sfp.fr