SHOOTING STARS

Described by star Romane Bohringer as resembling a French "Pulp Fiction" - and given its lurid, irreverent style, that's not far off the mark.

Lenny (charismatic up-and-comer Melvil Poupaud) is a reckless con artist trying to pull a drug deal; Juliette (Bohringer) hangs out with drug baron Joel, but fancies herself as a daredevil sharpshooter. Thrown together, they just about tolerate each other, in time-honored romantic comedy fashion, but Joel (a brilliantly serpentine, self-mocking performance by Jean-Phillipe Ecoffey) is watching their every move.

Graham Guit - one of the new French cinema's Most Likely To - provides a spiky script, in collaboration with Eric Neve, and directs with a true pop culturist's eye for retina-searing color and 70s retro ephemera. Guit's fast, cheeky pop fiction comes laced with a witty, stylish soundtrack (Cardigans, vintage funk etc.)

"I am from the same generation as Juliette and Lenny. I grew up with the telly which became part of my cultural base. In the TV Series of my childhood the moral was always laid on heavily. Problems were always resolved in 52 minutes. The consequence of consuming tons of this predigested philosphy was to develop a skew whiff and ironic view of things. In my film violence is present, but it is not excessively graphic, so it never appeals tot the emotions. As for drugs, I didn't want to demonize this or pass moral judgment. It's a reality. In my film there are characters who use drugs." (Graham Guit, Director)

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Olivier KARIU- DOP

Graam GUI - director

Born in 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Graham Guit abandoned his studies at the age of 16 to make CALEB, his first short film. He then worked as an assistant on nine shorts before making his second short film "Le Roman de Leo/ The Leo's Novel". He makes his debut as a director of feature films with SHOOTING STARS.

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