3 questions to Claude Pérès

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La Lucarne talks about Unfaithful

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Bare desire:
The ambition of Claude Pérès was to make a film different in form and concept, which explores themes of power and desire. Without imposing anything, but raising questions. And he did it!

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by Hugues Demeusy

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"Infidèles" @ identiT Festival/Paris

(Pictures by Myriam)


"- Your movie is really beautiful, I'm so moved... And that's true, it's not about sex, it's about something way more important, a word not said in the movie: sensitivity!
- Actually, he said it on the couch and when they tickle each other...
- Yes, indeed."

"- How did you learn to make a movie?
- I took a piece of paper and a pen and I pressed pause on every single seconds of films I found interesting."

"- It's gorgeous, thank you.
- Thank you for saying that."

"- How could we see it again?"

"- Deluding people in cinema, it's like likeness in figurative art. I wanted to give enough space to the viewer for him to raise questions, even if it meant giving him enough time to realize he dislikes the movie."

"- Are you an actor?
- I've learned a bunch of stuff..."




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a review of Unfaithful

Queer-o-mat tell us about the screening @ PFF:

Unfaithful
Der Abschlussfilm, ein schwuler Porno und doch wieder keiner. Der Filmemacher Claude Pérès fragt Marcel Schlutt: „Ich will einen Film über das Verlangen machen…. Ich bitte Dich darum, mit mir Sex zu haben“. Vorwiegend „männliche“ Besucher_innen strömten in den Kinosaal und leider mit der Zeit in Scharen wieder hinaus. Was war der Grund? Zu wenig Sex, würde ich sagen. Der Film begleitet die Begegnung zwischen Claude und Marcel, die neben dem „Wunsch“ nach Sex miteinander, letztlich mehr reden. Der Beginn des Filmes liegt zudem im Dunkeln, da nichts auf der Leinwand zu sehen und lediglich die Erregung zu hören ist. Nach dem abrupten Ende des ersten Versuches, wird es nun „heller“ im Film. Es wird gefrühstückt, geredet, kleine Experimente mit der Kamera (zunächst soll sich Marcel Schlutt selbst befriedigen, danach werden die Rollen getauscht) und irgendwann der wahrscheinlich von vielen Besucher_innen ersehnte Sex. Leider waren zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits 2/3 gegangen. Um den Film zu resümieren, lässt sich sagen, dass eben weil er nicht nur zeigt, sondern vieles andeutet und in seiner Stille sehr laut ist, er sehr sehenswert ist.

[The closing film, a gay porn and yet not a gay porn. The filmmaker Claude Pérès asks Marcel Schlutt: "I want to make a film about the desire .... I want you to have sex with me. " Unfortunately the predominantly "male" audience went out the theater during the screening. What was the reason? Not enough sex, I would say. The film follows the meeting between Claude and Marcel, it goes through "desire" and sex and talks. The beginning of the film also happens in the dark, because nothing is shown on the screen and the excitement is only to the ear. Following the abrupt end of the first experiment, it is now "lighter" in the film. It is breakfast, talk, small experimenting with the camera (Marcel Schlutt satisfies himself, then the roles are exchanged), and what was probably expected by many viewers: Sex. Unfortunately 2/3 of them were gone by that time.
To sum up the movie, we can say that because it not only shows, but also hints, and in his silence is very loud, it is well worth seeing.]

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Trailer #4 by zacchioO

To introduce himself, zacchioO nicely says that "reaching my forties, I accept the few I am. Failures made me humble and this humility leads me to make new personal and professional choices, after having enjoyed so much being a project manager."

About his trailer, he said : "I thought about a trailer not getting to far from the script of the movie, even though I took the risk of being unfaithful to it. At the end of the day, I expressed my own sensitivity and my need of tenderness in my way of conceiving this trailer."

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"Infidèles" in Paris 12/12/09

"The counter-culture meetings: In the same vein as Morrissey and Breillat, Claude Pérès invite us in a sexually explicit "huis-clos", questioning the relationship between actor and director, through power and desire"
www.festivalidentit.org
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note to self #10

< style = "color: # 000000 ;">Shit, when I look at the pictures of me during the shooting, I look like I'm close to fall apart, don't I?< /h2>

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Unfaithful: world premiere @ PFF/Berlin

Departures... (© claude pérès)
Berlin airport (© claude pérès)

Moviemento Kino (Germany's oldest cinema) (© myriam)


claude pérès & marcel schlutt before the screening (© myriam)


natal before the screening (© myriam)


the screening (© myriam)


natal haziza, claude pérès, marcel schlutt & jürgen brüning (PFF director, Bruce LaBruce's producer) during the Q&A (© myriam)


natal haziza, claude pérès & marcel schlutt (© myriam)


natal haziza, claude pérès, marcel schlutt & jürgen brüning (© myriam)


natal haziza, claude pérès, marcel schlutt & jürgen brüning (© myriam)


@ the airport (© claude pérès)


@ the airport (© claude pérès)



News from the World Premiere in Berlin:
- one quarter of the audience was expecting porn and was very disappointed
- one quarter couldn't bear the calm and minimalist rhythm of the movie
- half of the audience was thrilled

conclusion: we shook that audience!



Google request: "claude peres unfaithful bootleg"


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Du & Ich presents Unfaithful

[The number one erotic star Marcel Schlutt was invited by the director Claude Pérès to spend the night for his movie "Unfaithful". They don't know each other. They are alone, only a camera witnesses. Desire comes from those two strangers. Does it disturb what is going on or does it respect it? Does it reach the experimentation or does it confuse the sense? The thrilling film experiment of Claude Pérès played 98 minutes long with our reception and question our our viewing and listening habits. Sometimes we are voyeur, sometimes we are only listener in the dark. What about porn, if you don't see? The best films are only in your head? Maybe. A successful attempt of irritation. (fh)]

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Trailer #3 by Jean-Marie Potiez

Jean-Marie Potiez (aka JMP) lives in Paris. Make-up artist for 15 years, he is also graphic designer and stage director.

Few words about his trailer:" Very cool to give people the opportunity to be a part of the making of the trailer! I enjoyed making it, besides those excerpts really make me want to see the whole movie!




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Unfaithful @ Berlin 10/25/09

"Ein Regisseur, ein Schauspieler, eine Nacht, eine Wohnung, ein Projekt: „Ich will einen Film über das Verlangen machen … Ich bitte Dich darum, mit mir Sex zu haben“. Ausgehend von dieser Ansage schafft es Regisseur Claude Pérès, einen knisternden und unglaublich erregenden Film zu machen. „Unfaithful“ ist für den Zuschauer Vorspiel und Höhepunkt zugleich, ein ständiger Wechsel von Kopfporno und Hardcore, von Andeuten und Zeigen. Pérès lässt dem Betrachter immer genügend Raum für eigene Fantasien und erlaubt ihm zugleich explizite Einblicke. Der körperlichen Dimension sind Gespräche gegenüber gestellt, in denen die beiden sich verbal den Themen Verlangen, Sehnsucht, Liebe und Sex nähern. So entsteht eine intime und ebenso kluge wie erotische Studie über Grundprinzipien der Lust."


["One director,one actor,one night,one flat,one project: “I want to make a movie about desire ...I’m asking you to have sex with me“. It just takes this announcement from director Claude Pérès to create an unbelievably thrilling movie.“Unfaithful“ changes from mental porn to hardcore, alternates between teasing and showing. An as much smart as sexy approach to define desire. "]

Screening of Unfaithful: PFF @ Berlin on October, the 25th, at 6pm (info here).

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Silence

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LivE BlogGiNg: a caSUAl dAy oF tHe edITInG

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QOTV talk about Unfaithful

Queers on the Verge chose to launch the beta version of their website with our trailer...
We wish them good luck!


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SavE thE DatE! LiVE blogGiNg on mONDay

LivE BLogGIng ON monDaY : OnE daY BehiND ThE EditINg.

Follow one day of the editing of Unfaithful. (It might be fun!)

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note to self #7

< style = "color: # 000000 ;">" font - weight: bold; " never say everything is political in cinema, the topic, the point of view, the making of it itself to begin with.

[I said never]< /h2>

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Poll #4: Posters

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Google Request: "how does unfaithful end".


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