Ciel rouge (2017)

Curiosità

Ciel rouge is a French film written and directed by Olivier Lorelle, shot in 2015 and released in 2017. It is set in the first Vietnamese offensive against French colonial rule and follows the fate of a French soldier and a young Viet Minh rebel whom he frees.

Production

Olivier Lorelle is a former professor of philosophy, who began writing film scenarios (especially for Rachid Bouchareb); in preparation for this film he undertook considerable research into the lives of women of the Viet Minh, above all using the biography of Xuân Phương Ao Dai: Du couvent des Oiseaux à la jungle du Viêt-minh by Danièle Mazingarbe.

For the main actors the director was looking for "classic beauty, something pure in the shapes of their face, to project the romanticism of the film", to complement the beauty of the natural world. He wanted actors who could express artlessness - she engaged in the revolution and him in a state of wonder at nature.

The scenes involving just the two actors were rehearsed first in Paris then in a theatre in Hanoi, simply to offer them support in the way they played without pushing the emotional side. Lorelle recounted that "we dropped them in the jungle with the two chief operators on their heels" and "filmed for 19 days, using two cameras, shooting everything in long takes, even rehearsals".

The film was shot entirely on location in Vietnam, including a section at and on Ba Bể Lake in the north of the country, as well as a valley in Hà Giang Province. The film was shot more or less in the order of the action.

The co-producer of the film was Chiều Xuân, well known in Vietnam, who took care of obtaining all the necessary authorisations from local authorities and organising the décors. There were 19 days of shooting simultaneously using two cameras, with everything in long take ("plan séquence") lasting up to 15 minutes, and even filming rehearsals.

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