The Nightingales Les Rossignols

by Juliette Saint-Sardos

France, Italy
2022
23 min
French, Italian with French subtitles
Short film
Fiction
Color
DCP

World Premiere

In Competition 2022

Official synopsis

Henri and Anaïs go to Rome for the weekend. He seizes the opportunity to introduce her to his Isadora, the child he had with a childhood sweetheart. As for Anaïs, she returns to the city where she lived as a child with her mother, and where her mother died. Caught up in a tangle of past and present ties, Henri, Anaïs and Isadora will each have to experience loss and the mourning of the past.

The programmer’s eye

With “The Nightingales”, Juliette Saint-Sardos follows in the footsteps of the great masters of psychological drama. She stages a fragmented trio of troubled and disoriented souls wandering the streets of Rome. As in Antonioni's work, the spaces characters travel through refer to their mental universe, while the treatment of the family crisis through the dialectic of hatred/forbearance is reminiscent of Arnaud Desplechin's cinema. “The Nightingales” also conveys a certain revolt, embodied by Isadora, who delivers a vindictive critique of patriarchy in a paroxysmal sequence.

Zoé Lacôme

Biography and Filmography

After studying literature and art history, Juliette Saint-Sardos joined the INA's Master's programme in film production. She directed “Jeté Nu” (2016), a student film selected in several festivals. From 2018 to 2020, she worked at the Société des réalisateurs de films as a communication officer. After the remarkable “Super Nova” (2021), her first short film, Juliette Saint-Sardos offers “The Nightingales” (2022). She is currently working on the post-production of an experimental film, “L'Homme et le Canari”, with Composite Films.

 

2022 : L’HOMME ET LE CANARI (SHORT) - Juliette Saint-Sardos - Director and Screenwriter

2022 : THE NIGHTINGALES (SHORT) - Juliette Saint-Sardos - Director and Screenwriter

2021 : SUPER NOVA (SHORT) - Juliette Saint-Sardos - Director and Screenwriter

Juliette Saint-Sardos

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Composite Films, Illmatic Films

by Juliette Saint-Sardos

After studying literature and art history, Juliette Saint-Sardos joined the INA's Master's programme in film production. She directed “Jeté Nu” (2016), a student film selected in several festivals. From 2018 to 2020, she worked at the Société des réalisateurs de films as a communication officer. After the remarkable “Super Nova” (2021), her first short film, Juliette Saint-Sardos offers “The Nightingales” (2022). She is currently working on the post-production of an experimental film, “L'Homme et le Canari”, with Composite Films.

 

2022 : L’HOMME ET LE CANARI (SHORT) - Juliette Saint-Sardos - Director and Screenwriter

2022 : THE NIGHTINGALES (SHORT) - Juliette Saint-Sardos - Director and Screenwriter

2021 : SUPER NOVA (SHORT) - Juliette Saint-Sardos - Director and Screenwriter