Seaside (2002) Bord de mer (original title)

Director:

Julie Lopes-Curval

Writers:

François Favrat
Julie Lopes-Curval

Release Date:

4 December 2002 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul...

Plot Keywords:

Factory | Seaside | Lifeguard | Undressing | Dancing

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Bulle Ogier	...	Rose
Ludmila Mikaël	...	Anne
Hélène Fillières	...	Marie
Jonathan Zaccaï	...	Paul
Patrick Lizana	...	Albert
Liliane Rovère	...	Odette
Emmanuelle Lepoutre	...	Albertine
Fabien Orcier	...	Jacquot
Jauris Casanova	...	Pierre
Audrey Bonnet	...	Lilas
Jean-Michel Noirey	...	Robert
Jacqueline Carpentier	...	Denise
Alexandra Mercouroff	...	Lucille
Antonia Ortu	...	La serveuse de bar
Nathalie Pannel	...	La femme notable
Séverine Hulin	...	Une Ouvriere
Gwenaëlle Lemartelot	...	Une Ouvriere (as Gwenaëlle Le Martret)
Pierre-Antoine Ortu	...	Le patron
Jack Duponchelle	...	Blanchard
Sophie Laloy	...	La maquilleuse
Josette Ferriere	...	La vielle dame

Directed by
Julie Lopes-Curval

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
François Favrat
Julie Lopes-Curval

Produced by
Alain Benguigui	....	producer

Original Music by
Christophe Chevalier
Nicolas Gerber

Cinematography by
Stephan Massis

Film Editing by
Anne Weil

Casting by
Nathaniele Esther

Production Design by
Philippe van Herwijnen

Costume Design by
Marie Malissen

Makeup Department
Nadine Boucher	....	trainee makeup artist
Vanessa Guérand	....	assistant makeup artist
Mika Korkida	....	key makeup artist
Maury Tollemer	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Marc Eloy	....	production manager
Isabelle Soyer	....	unit manager
Patrick Villeneuve	....	post-production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Carlo Da Fonseca Parsotam	....	first assistant director (as Carlos Parsotam)
Julie Navarro	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Denis Calvez	....	property master

Sound Department
Julien Cloquet	....	sound re-recording mixer
Steven Ghouti	....	adr mixer
Benoît Gilg	....	sound editor
Fabrice Gérardi	....	sound editor
Sophie Laloy	....	sound
Gildas Mercier	....	sound mixer
François Méreu	....	sound
Philippe Penot	....	foley artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Marie Deshayes	....	second assistant camera
Emile Dubuisson	....	assistant camera
Jean-Christophe Frendo	....	electrician
Camille Malissen	....	still photographer
Edouard Omnès	....	key grip
Rachid Rebouli	....	electrician
Julien Rohel	....	grip
Colin Wandersman	....	gaffer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Naima Lagrange	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Idit Bloch	....	assistant editor
Thomas Coulombeix	....	assistant editor
Marcel Mazoyer	....	color timer
Nora Sèches	....	color timer
Patrick Thauvin	....	negative cutter

Other crew
Léo Campagne	....	production secretary
Thierry Louis De Cannonville	....	production administrator
Arnaud Morin	....	production accountant
Krystel Rende	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Canal+
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
• Procirep
• Sofica Sofinergie 5
• Sombrero Films (associate producer)
• Sombrero Productions

Distributors

• First Run Features (2003) (North America) (subtitled)
• Pyramide Distribution
• Teodora Film

Other Companies

• Archipel  sound mixing
• Cinéstéréo  optical transfer
• Dovidis  re-recording sound stages
• Ex Machina  film lab
• Iris Camera  camera equipment
• Locaflash  electrical equipment
• TEST  titles
• Telegrip  grip equipment

Also Known As:

"Bord de mer" - France (original title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

France:U | Hong Kong:IIB | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | USA:Not Rated | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Cayeux-sur-Mer, Somme, France

Company:

Canal+

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

Oh, I DO Like To Be Beside The Seaside

This is another charmer. The great thing about France is that filmmakers are allowed to make 'small' films like this without being penalized. In the same year (2002) for example Le Chignon d'Olga was also released and between them both films racked up something like 100,000 admissions but nobody yelled, no heads rolled, in fact Julie Lopes-Curval who directed Bord de mer went on to write La role de sa vie which co-screenwriter of Bord de mer, Francois Favrat, directed and with Agnes Jaoui and Karin Viard co-starring 'Role' was a much more high-profile project. Not a lot happens in Bord de mer. If you want an analogy it's something like Walden if Thoreau had been part of a community. It's just a record of a year in a small seaside town which is virtually almost always out-of-season even in the summer because the only visitors are regulars, most of whom own property rather than staying in hotels/pensions. It's a company town to the extent that a small family company 'mine' the sea for stones which are then 'sorted' by the locals and used to manufacture anything that CAN be manufactured from pebbles. We follow a handful of people, the best known being Bulle Ogier and Ludmilla Mikhael, ex-Comedy Francaise as they are, in the immortal words of Johnny Burke, busy doing nothing. The film is shot in lovely, not to say restful, pastels and a second viewing some two years later was just as enjoyable as the initial one.