Jasmine

Film Info

France 2012 | 70 min. Director: Alain Ughetto

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Jasmine

Synopsis

A story of love and revolution emerging from plasticine ...

France, end of the 70s: Alain is the author of several cartoon films. His romantic meeting with a young Iranian student, Jasmine, changes the course of his life.

Teheran, 1978: The revolution sweeps away the despised regime of the Shah. Alain has joined Jasmine, their love grows in secret, with the hope that a new life is possible. The introduction of the Islamic Republic will destroy their illusions, and separate the two lovers ... For how long?

30 years later, it is time for Alain to revisit the theatre of his memory. Several faded blue aerograms, Super-8 films ... Not much remains. With his fingertips, from the bottom of the heart, he resurrects the past, image by image. In the restitution of a mysterious and oppressive Teheran, in the helter-skelter of history, beings of paste and blood fight, like many others, for love and freedom.

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Cast & Crew

Director

Alain Ughetto
Producer

Alexandre Cornu, Michèle Casalta, Alain Ughetto
Screenwriter

Alain Ughetto, Jacques Reboud, Chloé Inguenaud
Editor (Cut)

Catherine Catella
Original Score

Isabelle Courroy

Director's comment

Why would one dream about an old love affair, diving into memories of events that occurred thirty years ago, in a faraway and exotic land? For the great flow of history never stops. A ripple on the distant horizon becomes a wave. Iranians now fighting for democracy are a reverberation from a revolution now thirty years old, in which the Imams overturned the Shah. At the sight of Teheran in turmoil, my mind was flooded with visions of the woman who drew me into an earlier emotional and political maelstrom: Jasmin.

After over half a century on earth, I have an impressive number of films to my name. My first animated films were made while I was in love with Jasmin. At the present moment, I want to compose an autobiographical film in which every detail is a magnificent jewel, in a gift to a woman without whom the story would not exist.