Noce Blance
NOCE BLANCHE AKA White Wedding
Vanessa Paradis is just 20 years old (N.B. Vanessa was born in 1972)
and is one of the top female pop singers in France today. She makes her
screen debut in "None Blanche" and shows herself to be a very good actress,
too.
It took just one meeting with Vanessa for director Jean-Claude Brisseau
to fall under her spell, and to discover she is a sensitive, intelligent
girl blessed with a strong pesonality. He decided to take a chance and
star her in his film and she passed the film entrance exam with flying
colours. Her screen performance won her the French Cesar Award for "Most
Promising Actress". Co-starring with Vanessa Paradis is Bruno Cremer who
gives a powerful portrayal of a middle-aged school teacher of philosophy
who becomes infatuated with a lonely seventeen year old student in his
class. For a while he succumbs to her passion for him but realising how
insane their situation is tries to put an end to the association. His wife,
whom he loves, leaves him, and when he tries to distance himself from the
girl she switches to more violent tactics, and he soon finds that his life
has become a kind of hell.
In the role of the young student, Vanessa Paradis displays great sensuality
and maturity and she is simultaneously touching, bitchy, enigmatic, irritating
and moving, yet she is always simple and unaffected. 
Jean-Claude Brisseau, who also wrote the screenplay for 'Noce Blanche",
is a Professor of Letters and was a school teacher for some years. He is
on familiar ground in a school environment and of troubled and unhappy
youngsters, ill at ease with themselves and society. He says the aim of
the film is, first and foremost, to present the struggle waged by passion
against reason, and he attempted to put himself on both sides when making
his film - a story of an impossible passion which he wrote as a tender
tragedy.
"Noce Blanche" is the third film to be directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau.
JEAN-CLAUDE BRISSEAU
Writer/Director Jean-Claude Brisseau is an individualistic filmmaker
who looks on the world around him with the ayes of a moralist. It was Eric
Rohmer who encouraged him to make films after seeing an 8mm film Brisseau
had made.
Jean-Claude Brisseau is a Professor of Letters, and worked as a school
teacher for some years. Asked if his scenario for "Noce Blanche" is autobiographical,
Jean-Claude Brisseau says his scripts are never biographical as he does
not think his life is of interest to anyone else. But it is true that when
he writes a story he does utilise events in which he has participated and
with people that he has known.
As a past school teacher he understands young people, and the three
films he has made to date all deal with the problem of confrontations between
adolescents and adults.
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