Quatre Heures d’Ô Rage

Plot

O rage, O despair, in Alex's life, who had planned to seduce Sandrine by inviting her to a musical ( adapted from "The Cid" by Corneille). But she lets him down four hours before the show. Reselling the tickets is turning out to be a real nuisance, which results in Alex having words with all his friends.

Note of intent 

«Quatre Heures d’Ô Rage» (Four Hours of Storm) is an 11 minutes short-film made of 78% comedy, 12%  social satire, 8% general knowledge, 2% bagel but forget the onions: I’ve got a date tonight! To sum up we have : 

- 8,35 minutes of «Ahahaha», 

- 79,10 seconds of «It's so true!», 

- 52,40 seconds of fact-checking on Wikipedia

- 13,10 seconds of smoked turkey smell.

The movie is all about the main character personality : Alex.

30 years old, single, he's usually conciliative with his circle and the girls he meets. But this new mishap will really drive him into a corner. How will he manage to resell two tickets in four hours, when all the rage from years of frustration just explode ?

To tell this story with meaning, we chose a rhythmic staging, very short shots, hand-held filming all along. A staging who looks like Alex's personality who lose patience quickly when he doesn't get what he wants.

The cinematography is mostly inspired by anglo-saxon comedies, natural but elaborate. Some references :

Cast

The leading actor is still not assigned yet

Laure Lapeyre (Sandrine), supporting actress

Sébastien Gill (Edward), supporting actor

Crew

Cinematographer : Jimmy Boutry

Production Manager : Alice Nourrit

Editor : Benjamin Nitzer

FX : Romain Bourzeix

Composer : Maxime Villalonga

Making-of : Héloïse Morel

Script Doctor : Pierre Ferriere & Héloïse Morel

For the moment...

Technical Specs

The film will be shot with an Arri Alex, 2,35:1 ratio. Well, I think we had a look at the question from all sides…

Soundtrack

Project creator

Maxime Villalonge (so, myself! ): screenwriter / director

But also photographer, graphic designer, composer and color technician if I have some free time.

My previous film was a short-film-look-alike advertising for a communication agency :

I’ve been Art Director for 12 years, working for famous companies (Publicis, Ogilvy...). Photographer for 6 years, and published many times in french magazines (Destination magazine, Le Figaro...).

In 2013 I’m second unit commercial director (QNB & QNB Sports) working with Sean Ellis.