Le cri de la soie (1996)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Yvon Marciano

Writers:

Jean-François Goyet (writer)
Yvon Marciano (writer)

Release Date:

28 August 1996 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist...

Plot Keywords:

Fetish | Silk | Love | Sexuality | Cloth Fetishism

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Sergio Castellitto	...	Gabriel de Villemer
Marie Trintignant	...	Marie Benjamin
Anémone	...	Cécile
Adriana Asti	...	Mme de Villemer
Alexandra London	...	Aude
Didier Sauvegrain	...	Docteur Bellec
Philippe Morier-Genoud	...	Le médecin-chef
Monique Couturier	...	Soeur Camille
Marc Betton	...	Le directeur de la prison
Camille Japy	...	Le modèle
Anne Jacquemin	...	La vendeuse de foulards
Sylvie Milhaud	...	Jeanne Davenne
Anne Alvaro	...	Rosemonde Burel
Pierre Baillot	...	Un malade mental
Vincent Boussard	...	Le contradicteur italien
Rodolfo De Souza	...	Docteur Solano
Marc Barbé	...	L'interne sténotypiste
Gilles Arbona	...	L'appariteur des beaux-arts
Beppe Chierici	...	Le président de la faculté à Rome
Marie-Paule Sirvent	...	Collégue Marie
Jean Boissery	...	Commissaire priseur
Myriam Roustan	...	Une ouvrière
Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat	...	Le médecin de famille
Gary Ledoux	...	Un enfant de choeur
Paula Chevallet	...	Religieuse italienne
Michèle Ernou	...	La surveillante prison 1918
Ophélia Teillaud	...	La surveillante de l'infirmerie
Eva Saint-Paul	...	Une dame au grand magasin
Marie-Laure Wicker	...	Co-détenue 1918
Valérie Drevon	...	La vendeuse au grand magasin #1
François Toumarkine	...	L'ami de la famille
Frédérique Cantrel	...	La vendeuse au grand magasin #2
Jean-Luc Revol	...	Infirmier #1
Jean-Charles Dumay	...	Infirmier #2
Dimitri Radochevitch	...	Le gardien
Sanaa Alaoui	...	Aicha
Laurent Ziserman	...	L'étudiant #1
Malcolm Conrath	...	L'étudiant #2
Zine Othmane	...	Abdul
Mohamed Bel Lafkim	...	Sculpteur
Raphaël Beauville	...	L'étudiant #3
Laurent Michel	...	Robert Esquirol
Marie-Françoise Audollent	...	Surveillante prison 1914

Directed by
Yvon Marciano

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jean-François Goyet		writer
Yvon Marciano		writer

Produced by
Sylvain Bursztejn	....	producer
Daniel Delume	....	producer
Marcel Hoehn	....	associate producer
Eliane Stutterheim	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Alexandre Desplat

Cinematography by
William Lubtchansky

Film Editing by
Catherine Quesemand

Casting by
Paula Chevallet

Production Design by
Katia Wyszkop

Set Decoration by
Gérard Marcireau

Costume Design by
Claire Risterucci

Makeup Department
Dominique Buisson	....	hair stylist
Catherine Crassac	....	hair stylist: Ms. Anémone
Leticia Rochaix	....	makeup artist
Nathalie Tanner	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Daniel Delume	....	production manager
Hamid Herraf	....	unit production manager
Pierrick Le Pochat	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gilles Bannier	....	first assistant director
Alexandre Nazarian	....	second second assistant director
Gabriele Roux	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Thierry Deniau	....	set dresser
Jacky Hardouin	....	carpenter
Gilles LaBoulandine	....	construction coordinator
Gérard Marcireau	....	set dresser
Christine Teulier	....	property master
Albert Wiss	....	painter

Sound Department
Laurent Barbey	....	sound
Pierre Choukroun	....	sound editor
Anja Lüdcke	....	assistant sound editor
Gérard Rousseau	....	sound
Martin Stricker	....	assistant sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Barry Davis	....	electrician
Nathalie Eno	....	still photographer
Jim Howe	....	gaffer
Irina Lubtchansky	....	first assistant camera
Mikaël Lubtchansky	....	second assistant camera
Patrick Tombette	....	grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Chantal Glasman	....	costumer
Delphine Hayat	....	costumer
Stéphanie Lugan	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Saskia Berthod	....	assistant editor
Anne-Marguerite Monory	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Anna-Karina D'Arthuys	....	production assistant
Nathalie Patron	....	production secretary
Chloé Perlemuter	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Career Management (CMC)
• La Sept Cinéma
• Les Films du Scarabée
• Mimosa Productions
• T&C Film AG

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

France | Belgium

Language:

French | Arabic | Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

France:U | Germany:16

Company:

Career Management (CMC)

A strange love story

Paris, 1914. A well-known psychiatrist becomes more and more involved with his patient Marie, an illiterate but kinky seamstress. They both share a fetish for silk...a strong sexual one.

So far, not so strange for a French art film. But it gets more interesting as the psychiatrist develops a thesis - one about this fetish. This thesis and the real fetish both characters share blend into one weird love story indeed. Many have found the plot especially well written. It won the award for Best European First/ Debut Script at Angers in 1994.