Beating Sun Tant que le soleil frappe
Directed by Philippe PetitFrance 2022
Runtime 85'
Max doesn’t dream of making green walls for five-star hotels. Tenacious landscaper, committed but cornered, he fights to create a wild garden, without fence, in the heart of downtown Marseille: a plant area open to all. After years of rejection, his project reached the final stage of an architecture competition. For Max, this is the last chance to offer oxygen to the people who are suffocating in an urban hell, under the beating sun.
Directed by
Philippe Petit
Screenplay
Philippe Petit in collaborazione con Marcia Romano, Laurette Polmanss e Mathieu Robin
Cinematography
Pierre-Hubert Martin
Editing
Valentin Féron
Music
Andy Cartwright
Sound
Régis Boussin, Théo Serror, Grégoire Couzinier
Production design
Christophe Couzon
Costumes
Floriane Gaudin
Cast
Swann Arlaud, Sarah Adler, Grégoire Oestermann, Pascal Rénéric, Lee Fortuné-Petit, Djibril Cissé, Marc Robert, Philippe Petit
Production
Frédéric Dubreuil (Envie de Tempête Productions)
International sales
Pyramide International
Pyramide International
Alberto Alvarez Aguilera
alberto@pyramidefilms.com
Press
Barbara Van Lombeek
barbara@theprfactory.com
Philippe Petit (1971) is a French writer-director and actor. Resident at the Villa Médicis in 2016, he directed short and medium-length films, selected in many festivals including Primes de Match, Digital Cut, Buffer Zone, etc. as well as documentaries like Danger Dave or more recently Grand Appartement. He has collaborated as an actor with various filmmakers, from Quentin Dupieux to Mia Hansen-Løve, or more recently Thierry de Peretti and Rabah Ameur Zaïmeche. In 2022, he finished Beating Sun, a feature-length fiction film, produced by Frédéric Dubreuil for Envie de Tempête.
