71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Le Cahier Noir / The Black Book

Valeria Sarmiento
France - Portugal      103 m.
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This is the story of the late eighteenth-century adventures of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for reasons we don't know, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a disturbing cardinal, they prompt us to explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.

Director
Valeria Sarmiento (Chile)
Screenplay
Carlos Saboga
Production
Alfama Films (France)
Paulo Branco
Leopardo Filmes (Portugal)
Paulo Branco
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Alfama Films (France)
Photography
Acácio de Almeida
Edition
Luca Alverdi
Music
Jorge Arriagada
Cast
Lou de Laâge, Stanislas Merhar, Niels Schneider, Jenna Thiam, Fleur Fitoussi, David Caracol, Vasco Varela da Silva, Tiago Varela da Silva
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DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
103 m.
Country
France - Portugal
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