
Zygomatiques
Stephen Cafiero
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 19 minutes
- Genre
- Comedy
Nowadays, what would a humorless society, without second degree look like? What would happen if, in this austere reality, a man started laughing? Life goes on: children are born, people die, and a lot of things happen in between. But this society has a little special something, it doesn’t know laughter. No one has ever laughed, derision, second degree, all that doesn’t exist. Until the day when a neuropsychiatry doctor is immediately conscripted by the army to examine a patient who has a strange particularity: he laughs. He even has a sense of humor. His facial deformities and his incoherent comments frighten the highest authorities, especially considering the fact that it seems highly contagious. The man is quicly shut in a bunker with the doctor who must cure him so this «scourge» doesn’t spread throughout the population... But then, the contagion proceeds, and even though the patient is confined to imprisonment, the doctor leaves with the «virus» out in the open.
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France, 2013)
Semaine de la Critique - Cannes Festival (France, 2013)
Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg (France, 2013)
Prix du public & Prix d’interprétation - Festival du court métrage d’humour de Meudon (France, 2013)
Leeds International Film Festival 2013 / Leeds (United Kingdom, 2013)
Prix spécial du Jury - Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest 2013 (France, 2013)
Prix du public - Ciné Club de Velizy-Villacoublay (France, 2014)
City of Lights, City of Angels (USA, 2014)
Fenêtres sur Courts (France, 2014)
Trailer
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Cast | |
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Alexandre Astier | Docteur Paul Lamarade |
Simon Astier | Patient Henry Gaulan |
Olivier Rabourdin | General Gagmanikof |
Sylvie David | Josphine |
Jeanne Dauny | Fille du Docteur Lamarade |
Jean-Stan Du Pac | Fils du docteur Lamarade |
François Marielle | Lieutenant Goinet |
Jean-Toussaint Bernard | Soldat clown |
Joël Dupré La Tour | Présentateur TV |
Crew | |
Nathalie Lapicorey | producer |
Zeynep Gizem De Loecker | producer |
Distribution | Premium Films |