Synopsis
Bobo and Michael Lonsdale, inside the great corridors in the castle of Versailles, talk about history.
“since he’s been 16 years old Bobo lives and work for me. He’s a little guy, diagnosed with microcephaly, deaf and muet, He lived more than 40 years i a psychological institute.
That’s where I found him, and I took him with me
Disability, I don’t like that word, I’m opposed to any sort of category. Disabilities can be a chance, better , it can be a chance. Inside Bobo there’s a mystery, as if everything was flowing through him. He became a great actor, he doesn’t project anything. Like a magical dimension. everything that goes through him becomes him , When put’s on a coat he become’s that coat
We live in a time of “approval” , the obligation too conformity. Ever since I started living with Bobo, I know what is the beauty of life , it’s the difference.
When this project was brought to my attention , I knew I wanted to shoot in the castle of Versailles.
this enormous symmetrical architectural place, the magnificence, the rooms filled with chandeliers, the furnitures, gildings, with the traces left by the powerful. Versailles is a symbol of absolute power.
I wanted to film the fragility in this place of power. I wanted two people to visit this place, like a walk. I offered Michael Lonsdale to play with Bobo. 83 years old, illness and old age, made him vulnerable. The big body of Michael ready to collapse, next to Bobo who’s body, more fragile. There’s at the same an opposition and similarity. Only by them being there in this royal atmosphere, words aren’t what matters especially when you have these two actors who tell us a lot only by being doing very little.”
Pippo Delbono
Soutiens
Public establishment of the castle, the museum and the national territory of Versailles
Catherine Pégard, Présidente Direction du développement culturel
Marie-Armelle Hoyau, Référente Accessibilité-Handicap
Direction des Relations Extérieures
Jeanne Hollande, Chargée de l’accueil des tournages
Et toutes les équipes du Château
Le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
départements de l’éducation et du développement artistique et culturel
La Réunion des établissements culturels pour l’accessibilité
CICLIC - Centre-Val de Loire Region
Ile-de- France Region
La Mairie de Paris
The association Perce-Neige
The association Persona Très Grata
L’Arche en France
L’UNAPEI
Prix
GRAND PRICE OF THE FESTIVAL Doc en Courts de Lyon, 2016
BEST SHORT FILM at the film festival É Tudo Verdade, It's All True, 2016
Festivals
FID, Marseille, 2015
Festival ACTORAL de Marseille, 2015
FIAC Cinéphémère, 2015
Café des Images de Hérouville-Saint- Clair, 2015
DocLisboa, 2015
Zinebi Bilbao, 2015
FilmMaker Festival Internazionale di Cinema, 2015
Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, 2016
First Look Film Festival, New York, 2016
9èmes Journées Internationales du Film sur l'Art, 2016
Doc en courts, festival du court-métrage documentaire, Lyon, 2016
Festa del cinema di Roma, 2016
Festival international du film documentaire É Tudo Verdade, It’s All True de Rio de Jainero, 2016
T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Pologne, 2016
États Généraux du Documentaire, Lussas, 2016
Film Festival Base-court (inclusive art) in Lausanne 2017
24th edition. of the Rencontres de cinéma de court métrage de Cabrières-d’Avignon, Court, c’est Court ! 2017
Oska Bright Film Festival, From the 15 th to the 17 th of November 2017 and a projection at the Towner Art Gallery, in Eastbourne 2017
14th Edition of the Hivernales du Documentaires 2018