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Brief Crossing

Country: France, Language: French, 80 mins

Original Title

Brève Traversée
  • Director: Catherine Breillat
  • Writer: Catherine Breillat
  • Producer: Pierre Eid; Jean-Pierre Guérin

CGiii Comment

Pointless and dreary.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. Filming a guy's "first time", filming him like a girl. Gut level skin deep... Nostalgia for vast ocean liners, for places "beyond the law" where you can venture outside of life, safe within an interlude. Describing a passion while respecting classical tragedy's unity of time and place, setting the stage for the eternal play of Masculine/Feminine. A hot-blooded Latin temperatment versus an apparently cool English one. A ship - one night - Sudden intimacy between an Englishwoman whose complexion is frosted by bitterness and a teenager whose gaze glows like ardent coals.

Cast & Characters

Sarah Pratt as Alice;
Gilles Guillain as Thomas;
Marc Filipi as Magicien;
Laetitia Lopez as Assistante magicien;
Marc Jablonski as Cuisinier du self;
Christelle Dacosta as Douanier Francais;
Nicholas Hawtrey as Vieil anglais;
Franck Lemaitre as Serveur de la boite;
Philippe Quaisse as Photographe;
Jean-Claude Cavelier as Serveur de la boite;
Alexandre Le Balidec as Douanier Francais