L’Effacée / The Shady Lady
A film by Guy Bordin & Renaud De Putter
Fiction/documentary
Colour, VO French, English subtitles, duration 80’, Belgium, 2017
Synopsis
1910. Charlotte Dufrène, a former demimondaine secluded in elegant society close to Paris, has to accept a strange proposal: to become the pretend companion of Raymond Roussel, an eccentric writer and secret homosexual. She would spend twenty-three years by his side, accompanying him right to the end of a hallucinated quest. From Brussels, where she then retreats, she recalls the day preceding this decisive meeting and the flamboyant celebration that was then given in her honour. Letters sent by Charlotte Dufrène between 1933 and 1964 support this narrative.
Direction: Guy Bordin & Renaud De Putter
Screenplay: Guy Bordin & Renaud De Putter
Photography: Antoine Meert
Sound: Loïc Villiot & Iannis Heaulme
Film editing: Cédric Zoenen
Colouring: Franck Ravel
Sound editing: Mélodie Wegnez
Mixing: Aurélien Lebourg
Music: Renaud De Putter, Marius-François Gaillard, Reynaldo Hahn, Lea Petra, Camille Saint-Saëns
Voices: Jean Fürst, Aurore Latour
Cast: Rachid Benbouchta, Louis Combeaud, Christian Crahay, Romain Dayez, Alexa Doctorow, Jean Fürst, Aurore Latour, Lea Petra, Jérémie Siska
Screening format: DCP, H 264, bluray
Production: Hélicotronc (Anthony Rey)
Coproduction: Kolinette filmindustri
Coproduction: Shelter Prod
With the support of:
Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgium), Taxshelter.be, ING, and the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government.