Notre-Dame de la Croisette
A young woman, Mademoiselle Betty, visiting Cannes during the 1981 film festival, tries to access to screenings and press conferences, while having no accreditation. She nevertheless manages to assist the press conference for the documentary She Dances Alone about Kyra Nijinski, daughter of the famous dancer, and for The Postman Always Rings Twice, in presence of the actors Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, and director Bob Rafelson, whom she meets again in her hotel lift. The film goes straight into the life of the festival, as all these anonymous figures that pass through it, a world out of the world (that the character watches on television, in her hotel room) where nobody seems to recognise the (real) actress Bulle Ogier in this slightly naive visitor…
Daniel Schmid
Born in Flims, Graubünden, in 1941, Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid spent his childhood in the family hotel. At the age of 18, he moved to Berlin, where he studied at the Academy of Film and Television, and formed a close friendship with the new wave of German cinema. From the 70s to the 90s, Daniel Schmid made a dozen feature-length fiction films and documentaries, which were shortlisted at major festivals. Schmid never betrayed his passion for lyricism, theatre and opera, for which he also directed several productions. He died in 2006 at the age of 64.
RTSI, Pic-Film
Renato Berta
Luc Yersin
Luc Yersin
Cinémathèque suisse / marie-amelie.hunou@cinematheque.ch