After La Flamme and Le Flambeau, Anna Girardeau is unrecognizable in a costume drama.

Anna Girardot is this Wednesday in the costume drama Des Feux dans la nuit, directed by Dominique Lienhardt. He is surrounded by the young Igor van Dessel (mentioned in the film Le Rire de ma mère) and Jeremy Elkaim (War is declared, Polis).

The setting of Des Feux dans la nuit is this: an isolated village between the sea and the mountains. Its inhabitants are trying their best to survive. Alan’s father, a 15-year-old boy, went to work away from his family and entrusted the survival of the family. A disproportionate task for Alan, who also has to watch big bonfires on the beach, boil salt, but also, he eventually learns, tow boats on stormy evenings. One night the ship sinks and offers its precious cargo to the villagers…

Recently appearing in the Le Flambeau series (with the character of “Anna, the draw”), Anna Girardot often changes registers. He recently starred in Ogre, a genre film directed by Arnaud Malherbe, in the spy series Totems for Prime Video, or even in the sports film 5ème Set with Alex Lutz.

With Des Feux dans la nuit, Anna Girardot excelled in a costume drama set in the 16th century. The film is loosely inspired by Akira Yoshimura’s Japanese short story, Shipwreck, which writer-director Dominique Lienhard set on a small European island in the 16th century. Dominic Linhard wanted to make a fairy tale set in the past, not a historical drama. The 16th century seemed to him to contain the seeds of the fantasy he wanted to put forward.

“When I read Yoshimura’s story, I was moved by the story of this brave boy, his struggle to win back his mother’s love and father’s admiration., he shares the film’s press kit. “As I closed the book, I was convinced that there was material for making a motion picture.”

Special attention is paid to the film image. The photo was taken by Pascal Marin, who worked mainly in natural light. To get out of historical reconstruction and create a more timeless story, he was inspired by the contrasts and shadows of the hunter’s night, the very expressive cold colors of the exterior of silence or the magic and harshness of natural lighting. Michael Koolhaas. . “In fact, the interior was not shot in natural light, but in a studio. However, Pascale and his team achieved the naturalness of this effect by using light from small windows. I admire Pascal’s work. He is a magician“, – specifies Dominik Lienhard.

Des Feux dans la nuit opens in theaters this Wednesday, August 3, 2022.