About "y'a des jours comme ça"

[laurent.a]

"Funny" thing, the reviews on this film I posted have disapeared...

Someone asked "is it really a student film ?" or something like that.

As I mentionned in the showcase, it's a gradutating film of my students in Cannes, France (not Germany...). As they are technical students, they don't direct their films, we teacher or "outside" directors do.

I think the reviewers should :

1) not post anonymously

2) read the films' presentation...

Anyway, it's not, in any case, any "b film that someone wants to be showed" or something like that, but a students'work.

About the screenplay, that seeemed to bore one or two : I rewrote it from a continuity that was given to me by a screenwriter as he was working on the script of a french TV film that actually was produced in the meantime and showed on TV a few weeks ago, that had the same title...

 

[laurent.a]

About the exposition scene, that someone commented : do you understand french or not ? I consider the exposition is done when the main character arrives by the school, driving, and sees the dealer work. The whole situation is setup.

The thing is, for sure, that the driving sequence is too long. This is also due to the fact that I couldn't have the actor drive as fast as I wanted, since he was worried a lot about the camera on the offset or on the limped on the hood...

Another point is that we couldn't control the traffic, we had the authorization for shooting in the streets but not to block other cars.

It was actually funny about the car crash (that doesn't work either because of different problems we had as we shot - no smashed car pieces, it was raining like hell the lady wouldn't drive, and we did the whole scene in a couple of hours...) : the Cannes police read the script, and said "ok, but don't block the traffic ! " We certainly had to do that for this one !).

Anyway, I was thinking that when I asked Kim if I could post those films, considering I was not a student, he replied, "go on, we are all students, life is the school, give your film" or something like that.

I actually don't pretend to be a director.

I've been working as an operator and assistant for 15 years, and then teach for 6 years, but I consider I'm still learning photography, directing and teaching.

When you work in the cinema industry, you learn all the time.

I wish you students always learn something long after you are graduated !

Regards.