email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

CANNES 2005 Critic's Week

The Invisibles - Within sounds

by 

The 44th edition of the Critic's Week started this afternoon with the opening screening of the first feature film by Thierry Jousse: The invisibles. The public was quite mixed in its reaction. The film of the former editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma depicts Bruno’s musical and love quest, starring Laurent Lucas who manages once more to play a pleasant character who is actually not. This electronic music creator, living in an obsessional universe, is always hunting sounds, listens to his neighbors, records the leaves’ rustling, the windows’ creaking, tries out every conceivable sounds and above all connects himself on a dating telephone network on which he can hear dozens of different voices. He meets Lisa, a woman who makes dates in a hotel on a regular basis, sexual moments under contract in the dark which Bruno naturally records in order to create music. Then Lisa disappears and Bruno runs for her, going in partner swapping places without finding anything apart from receiving blows, while recording an album on behalf of a disc house. The Invisibles, a parable on the chaos of the creating process, precisely depicts the inward-looking world of electronic music and the communication problems of his main character. However, a few unnecessary sensational turn of events of the script with Michael Londsdale tarnish the initial good impression left by Thierry Jousse’s film, a candidate to the Camera d’Or, even if he does not compete in the Semaine de la Critique.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

The Invisibles, produced by Les Productions Bagheera, were granted a budget of 1,91 million euros, an advance on receipts of CNC amounting to 420 000 euros, an presales of Canal + and a writing support from Région Centre, the international sales being looked after by Wide Management.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

(Translated from French)

Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox.

Privacy Policy