CERVINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
6th edition
Breuil-Cervinia/Valtournenche, July 23rd-27th, 2003

THE COMPETITION

FULL-LENGTH FEATURES COMPETITION

LE PAYS DU CHIEN QUI CHANTE (The Land of the Singing Dog)
FRANCE, 2002, 95’, col., 35mm
Director Yann Dedet
Script Camille Brottes
Editing Mathilde Muyard
Cinematography Nathalie Durand
Cast Katsuko Nakamura (Yoshiko Mahiru), Gen Shimaoka (Tôyô Mahiru), Jules Dedet-Granel (Sylvain Ferroz), Dominique Piard (Jean Ferroz); François Piard (Maurice Perret), Louis Benoit (il nipote dell’uomo col cane)
Production Gilles Sandoz, ARTE France, MAIA Films, CNC
Distribution Mercure Distribution

Tôyô and Yoshiko Mahiru, two Japanese scientists, move into a village in a heavily wooded part of the Jura mountains. Tôyô, a musicologist, is looking for a singing dog: his wife is conducting a study on ancient religious settlements in France and Japan. Their japanese lifestyle inevitably sparks the curiosity of the locals. Tôyô quickly becomes obsessed with an unseemly, pressing and insane idea: noticing a young villager’s interest in his wife, he plots a way to give his childless marriage a descendant. He secretly arranges his own disappereance to allow the young man to have a relationship with Yoshiko.

DIRECTOR
Born in 1946, Yann Dedet worked for six years as film editor. Since 1971, he edited films of great French directors, from François Truffaut to Jean-François Stévenin, Maurice Pialat, Claire Denis and many others. He also directed a TV movie and two shorts, and he wrote four screenplays. This film represents his debut in feature film directing.

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