Bison (et sa voisine Dorine), Le (2003)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Isabelle Nanty

Writers:

Isabelle Nanty (writer)
Fabrice Roger-Lacan (writer)

Release Date:

4 June 2003 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy

Cast

Isabelle Nanty	...	Dorine
Edouard Baer	...	Louis Le Bison, dit le Bison
Nicolas Marais	...	Joseph
Tilly Mandelbrot	...	Kim
Marie Martin	...	Léa
Jules-Angelo Bigarnet	...	Paulo
Pierre-François Martin-Laval	...	Joël
Martine Chevallier	...	Madame Cabut (as Martine Chevalier)
Juliette Duval	...	Rose
Valérie Bonneton	...	Reine
Emmanuelle Lepoutre	...	Anita
Anne Consigny	...	L'avocate
Chad Chenouga	...	Mourad
Nadia Barentin	...	Irène, la mère de Dorine
Riton Liebman	...	L'employé de banque
Candide Sanchez	...	Le premier huissier
Jacques Tresse	...	Le deuxième huissier
Solenn Jarniou	...	Madame Collin, l'institutrice
Nanou Garcia	...	La sage-femme
Jean-Michel Portal	...	L'interne
Michaël Cohen	...	Le prêtre
Roland Menou	...	Le facteur
Patrick Ligardes	...	M. Gérard
Isabelle Habiague	...	Femme télé-achat
Patrick Hiessler	...	Homme télé-achat
Bénédicte Guiho	...	Fille sitcom
Steve Suissa	...	Garçon sitcom
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Virginia Anderson	...	L'infirmière
Eugène Berthier	...	Le bouliste
Virginie Bordes	...	Mademoiselle Guesh l'infirmière
Sofia Dourbecker	...	Doublure Isabelle Nanty

Directed by
Isabelle Nanty

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Isabelle Nanty		writer
Fabrice Roger-Lacan		writer

Produced by
Claude Berri	....	producer
Pierre Grunstein	....	executive producer
Nathalie Rheims	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Jérôme Bensoussan
Ignatus

Cinematography by
Philippe Pavans de Ceccatty

Film Editing by
Catherine Renault

Casting by
Bénédicte Guiho

Production Design by
Thierry Flamand

Art Direction by
Laurent Piron

Costume Design by
Sylvie Gautrelet

Makeup Department
Christian Gruau	....	key hair stylist
Sophie Harvey	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Virginia Anderson	....	assistant production manager
Sébastien Didelot	....	assistant unit manager
Eric Hubert	....	production manager
Bruno Morin	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Paul Gueu	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Emmanuelle Cuillery	....	assistant art director
Tom Danos	....	carpenter
Thierry Doerflinger	....	plasterer (2003)
Benoit Godde	....	graphic illustrator
Stanislas Reydellet	....	assistant art director
Christine Vincent-Genod	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Sophie Chiabaut	....	boom operator
Michel Filippi	....	adr supervisor
Jean-Paul Hurier	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jean Umansky	....	sound
Alexandre Widmer	....	sound editor

Visual Effects by
Frederic Moreau	....	visual effects producer

Camera and Electrical Department
Fabrice Bismuth	....	assistant camera
Maxime Cointe	....	assistant camera
Alain Cousseau	....	electrician
Gil Fontbonne	....	key grip
David Koskas	....	still photographer
Malek Krimed	....	assistant camera
Eric Le Roux	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Maira Ramedhan Lévy	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Carlos Pinto	....	second assistant editor

Other crew
Patrick Aubrée	....	script supervisor
Da Cruz Bruno	....	physical coach
Aude Lemercier	....	location scout
Roland Menou	....	dialogue coach
Fabien Pondevaux	....	location scout

Production Companies

• CNC 5
• Canal+
• Hirsch
• Pathé Renn Productions
• TF1 Films Productions

Distributors

• Pathé

Also Known As:

Bison, Le (France) (working title)

Runtime:

France:96 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Certification:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime, France

Company:

CNC 5

Quotes:

[Dorine and Louis Le Bison disputed. So, Dorine left the car of Louis Le Bison, and walks on the pavement - the car of Louis Le Bison goes past her]
Dorine: Right, will you shake me off, now ?
Louis Le Bison, dit le Bison: But I live here ! I'm obliged to pass through here ! I will not pass through the bloody ring road for your fun of it !

Vive la Concierge !

This film is no work of art ; nevertheless I would recommend it if only for the performance of Isabelle Nanty. She is excellent in the role of a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the girlfried of one of the lodgers in her building. This same lodger called Le Bison has rather strange hours and both he and Dorine ( the concierge ) get on each other's nerves because each makes noise at the "wrong" time for the other ! The fact that their respective mates have run off together nevertheless bring the two together and with Dorine's children getting very attached to Le Bison, there are the makings of an "idylle" between the two of them which the return of the two offending mates fails to break ( luckily for the spectator ). The film was made in the rather snobbish and stuck-up 16th arrondissement of Paris with a short foray out to the Northern Coast of France ( Criel sur Mer and Le Tréport ). The children play an important rôle in the film and Isabelle Nanty underlines this in her commentary about the film on the DVD. In fact the "making of" the film is just as much fun to watch as the film itself. So the film is a totally unpretentious slice of modern day life in Paris. I can conceive it not necessarily appealing to non-French speakers but as I live in Paris myself, it is easy for me to identify with the characters and situations. That said, I think Isabelle Nanty is one of today's splendid French actresses and I sincerely hope in the future that she will be better known internationally .