Three friends close to fifty are on holidays. They’ve deiced to organize a trip to the beach, leaving behind family, work and routine to be together again, the three of them alone, like before. After a short trip on a boat, they meet three much younger women. Humour and sensuality knit an unexpected complicity that goes beyond sex and age difference.

This encounter between the different ages of man and, at the same time, between Adam and eve in a new Paradise, gives the main characters back the desire that had been dormant during more than twenty years. The fresh insight of the three young women alters the middle aged men that travel in time back to their distant youth. The Mediterranean becomes a frame for this comedy, where the dolce far niente and summer evening dinners mingle with the characters’ reflections upon the passing of time.

Bernard Tanguy manages to unite both generations in Parenthèse; his work has reaped so much good feedback from his crew that he has decided to transform it into a feature film by using crowdfunding.  The film is being recorded this year.

Vincent Winterhalter, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus and Eric Veillard, the three main actors, are especially known for their French TV work. Anne Serra, Sophie Verbeek and Dinara Drukarova play the three young women. Drukarova, although young, has already worked in films such as Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg and Haneke’s Amour, where she had a minor role as a nurse.

Bernard Tanguy is a film director and producer. Previous to Parenthèse he directed short films Schema directeur (2009) and Je pourrais être votre grand-mère (2010).

Parenthèse is part of the Official Section of the 6th Edition of the International Half-Length Film Festival La Cabina.

PARENTHÈSE | Bernard Tanguy · France · 2013 · 31 min

Parenthese (Bernard Tanguy, 2012) from Festival La Cabina on Vimeo.