An unusual heat wave hangs over the beaches of Les Landes. On his final day at the campsite, 17-year-old Marouane is haunted by a fear: will the body he buried on the beach the day before come to light? At the same time, he wonders whether he might be falling in love with the charming Giulia.
Crédits
Interprètes
Hadrien Hussein, Martina La Manna, Tristan Richard
Screenplay
Stéphane Demoustier, D’après le roman La chaleur écrit par Victor Jestin, publié aux éditions Flammarion (based on the novel La chaleur written by Victor Jestin, published by Flammarion)Image
David ChambilleEditing
Damien MaestraggiSound
Olivier Dandré, Sarah Lelu, Julie Brenta, Ingrid Simon, Emmanuel de BoissieuMusic
Pierpaolo SaccomandiProduction
PETIT FILM : Jean des Forêts, Amélie Jacquis WILDSIDE, A FREMANTLE COMPANY : Sonia Rovai, Claudio Falconi PANACHE PRODUCTIONS & LA COMPAGNIE CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE : André Logie, Gaëtan David THE DREAMING SHEEP COMPANY : Matthias Erny, Christof NeracherWorld Premiere
Stéphane Demoustier
After directing several short films, Stéphane Demoustier, born in 1977, made his feature-film debut with Terre battue in 2014, followed by Allons enfants in 2018. His subsequent films, La Fille au bracelet, Borgo, and L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche, received several César Awards and were selected for prestigious international festivals. La Chaleur is his fifth feature film.