Film Info
Nana

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Nana
Original Title	Nana
English Title
Director	Valérie Massadian
Country
Year	2011
Format	DCP
Colour	Color
Duration	68'

Cast:

Intérpretes / Cast: Kelyna Lecomte, Alain

Production:

D: Valérie Massadian
Guión / Scriptwriter: Valérie Massadian
Fotografía / Cinematography: Léo Hinstin, Valérie Massadian
Edición / Editing: Dominique Auvray, Valérie Massadian
Producción / Producer: Sophie Erbs
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Gaïjin

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Synopsis

Nana’s initial sequence immediately evokes Eustache’s Le Cochon, Raymond Depardon’s Profils paysans, and Lisandro Alonso’s Los muertos. Yes, there’s a dead animal (a pig) killed by a human hand. Massadian focuses on the pig’s traumatic agony long enough for us to overcome the unpleasantness and attend to every detail of an almost pictorial composition (or rather a photographic one, considering the director spent years together with the great Nan Goldin) of the film’s images, including the magnetic center of the film: Nana. Four year-old Nana lives with her mother and grandfather in a stone house in the country. She plays outdoors on a sofa, strolls around the forest, and learns how to get dressed by herself. And Nana, the film, follows her fascinating protagonist with no apparent agenda, in long, hypnotic shots stripped out of any sentimentalism. It’s almost like an observation documentary, but it’s not quite that: there’s a story and a hinted mystery that takes Nana –and us– on a trip from naturalism to fantasy, and becomes, as someone said, “a fairy tale with no moral”.