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The Man in the Blue Gordini [L'Homme á la Gordini]
Jean Christophe Lie
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End of the 70’s, an imaginary suburb, the custom is to wear neither underwear nor trousers, only orange tops. With the help of a masked rebel driving a blue R8 Gordini, Mister R and his wife plot a radical clothing revolution and the assault of monochromic orange totalitarianism.
The absurd and the idiotic, with a libertarian impetus aiming at the overthrow of social codes and values, here are the main characteristics of this story. A kind of slap in the face of conventions and propriety. To provoke against the grain, a bit as if one were to wander through a nudist village in shorts, not out of a sense of decency, but simply from a desire to be different.
But the subject of this story is not to criticize either the nudists or the emancipation of the
seventies, however. The most important thing for the main characters, is to break themselves free from any form of standardization, whether liberal, ideological, moral, or linked to tastes or fashion...
The absurd and the idiotic, with a libertarian impetus aiming at the overthrow of social codes and values, here are the main characteristics of this story. A kind of slap in the face of conventions and propriety. To provoke against the grain, a bit as if one were to wander through a nudist village in shorts, not out of a sense of decency, but simply from a desire to be different.
But the subject of this story is not to criticize either the nudists or the emancipation of the
seventies, however. The most important thing for the main characters, is to break themselves free from any form of standardization, whether liberal, ideological, moral, or linked to tastes or fashion...
Director: Jean-Christophe Lie; script and graphic author: Jean-Christophe Lie; producers: Prima Linea Productions; Valérie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic; original soundtrack: DJ Moule; animation: Jean-Christophe Lie and Julien Dexant; backgrounds: Céline Puthier; compositing: Jean-Michel Bonnet; logos and posters: Pierre Di Sciullo; editing: Céline Kélepikis; sound design: Sébastien Marquilly; mix: Fabien Devillers
Jean-Christophe Lie (FR), born 1970. His professional career began in the Walt Disney Studios in
Montreuil, as assistant animator. Later he supervised the animation of the Triplettes characters in ”Les
Triplettes de Belleville“, a film by Sylvain Chomet. Jean-Christophe then joined the team of Michel Ocelot
and Bénédicte Galup to create reference animations with the whole of the team of ”Kirikou and The Wild
Beasts“. In the Prima Linea Productions studio he gained his first experience as assistant director for Blutch
in the feature film ”Fear(s) of the Dark“. In 2008/2009 with the same production company he directed his first short film: ”The Man
in the Blue Gordini“, which won several awards, among others the Special Jury Award at CICDAF of Changzhou (CN).
Montreuil, as assistant animator. Later he supervised the animation of the Triplettes characters in ”Les
Triplettes de Belleville“, a film by Sylvain Chomet. Jean-Christophe then joined the team of Michel Ocelot
and Bénédicte Galup to create reference animations with the whole of the team of ”Kirikou and The Wild
Beasts“. In the Prima Linea Productions studio he gained his first experience as assistant director for Blutch
in the feature film ”Fear(s) of the Dark“. In 2008/2009 with the same production company he directed his first short film: ”The Man
in the Blue Gordini“, which won several awards, among others the Special Jury Award at CICDAF of Changzhou (CN).