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HER NAME IS SABINE
Director: Sandrinne Bonnaire
Nationality: France (2007)
Duration: 85 minutes
Genre: First person
Original French version with spanish subtitles Direction: Sandrine Bonnaire
Screenplay: Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Chabrol
Music: Jefferson Lembeye, Nicola Piovani
Photography: Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Carbol
Edition: Svetlana Vaynblat
Sound: Samuel Abraham, Simon Apostolou, Philippe Richard, Jean-Berrnard Thomason
Producer: Mosaique Films
SYNOPSIS
Sabine Bonnaire is a 38 year old autistic women. Her sister, the renowned French actress Sandrine Bonnaire, debuts as a director with a touching documentary in her honor.
Through personal files accumulated during 25 years, Sandrine Bonnaire rebuilds Sabine’s life, a sensible girl, with artistic gifts, turned into an unrecognizable person due to the devastating effects of a 5 year stage in a psychiatric center.
A hard criticism to the French psychiatric institutions, but overall, an austere portrait, very tender about an illness that our society has never been able to understand and pay attention.
THE DIRECTOR
Sandrine Bonnaire (1967) is one of the most renowned actresses of her generation in France. Nominated to the Cesar Awards more than once, Bonnaire has worked for some of the most important French directors: Claude Chabrol, Maurice Pialat, Agnès Varda, Patrice Leconte or Jacques Rivette that turned her into Joan of Arc in his film Jeanne La Pucelle (1994). Bonnaire debuts as a director in this documentary.
AWARDS AND FESTIVALS
> Festival of Cannes. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and FIPRESCI Award. France, 2007.
> Internacional Film Festival of Chicago. USA, 2007.
> Internacional Film Festival Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain, 2008.
> Cesar nomination for Best Documentary, France, 2008.
