Fidelio – Alice’s Odyssey

Alice is a sailor. While her partner Felix waits for her on land, she gets a job as second engineer on the “Fidelio”, an old freighter. Once on board, she discovers not only that her predecessor has just died, but also that the skipper is none other than the first great love of her life. In her cabin, Alice finds a notebook that belonged to the deceased. As she reads these notes, a mixture of mechanical problems, sexual conquests and lovelorn emotions, she finds that, oddly enough, these mirror her own concerns. As they make stops at various ports, dealing with life at sea among an all-male crew and the swell and pitch of her romantic feelings, Alice tries to stay on course.
Screening Schedule

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Script: Lucie Borleteau, Clara Bourreau
Cinematography: Simon Beaufils
Editing: Guy Lecorne
Sound: Marie-Clotilde Chery, Edouard Morin, Melissa Petitjean
Music: Thomas de Pourquery
Actors: Ariane Labed (Alice), Melvil Poupaud (Gael), Anders Danielsen Lie (Felix)
Production: Apsara Films, France T. +33 6 2261 8128 m.arrighi@apsarafilms.fr& Why Not Productions, France T. +33 1 4824 2450 thomas@whynotproductions.fr nicolas@whynotproductions.fr www.whynotproductions.fr
Co-production: Arte France Cinema, France
Costumes: Sophie Begon
Production Design: Sidney Dubois
Format: DCP Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 2014
Duration: 95
Contact: Pyramide International, France T. +33 1 4296 0220 lgarzon@pyramidefilms.com www.pyramidefilms.com
Awards
Best Actress Award, Europa Cinemas Label – Locarno IFF 2014, Switzerland

Lucie Borleteau

She was born in 1980. Cinema Studies at Saint-Denis Paris 8 University. Since then, she has been working in film, did a little production, and collaborated on scriptwriting or staging with directors such as Claire Denis, Arnaud Desplechin and Lou Ye. She worked as an actress in several movies, and sometimes on stage. She directed three medium-length films. Fidelio – Alice’s Odyssey is her first feature film.

Filmography

2003 Nievaliachka, la poupee qui ne tombe pa (short doc)
2008 Les Voeux (short)
2012 La Greve des ventres (short)
2014 Fidelio – l'odyssee d'Alice/Fidelio – Alice’s Odyssey