INDIA
2014 / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
19’ – NO DIALOGUE
Synopsis
TrueLoveStory is a journey through the seductive, treacherous streets of Bombay. In a city soaked in Bollywood dreams, it moves from the fantastical to the viscerally real. TrueLoveStory is a painted ode to romance.
DIRECTOR: Gitanjali Rao
SCREENPLAY: Gitanjali Rao
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gitanjali Rao
EDITING: Kurro González
SOUND: P M Satheesh, Manoj Goswami
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Ruplali Gatti, Gitanjali Rao
MUSIC: EarthSync
ANIMATORS:
Sangita Khatu
Vishruta Churi
Rekha Thorat
PRODUCTION
GITANJALI RAO PRODUCTIONS
Gitanjali Rao
Tel. +91 98 2173 4885
gitanjalirao@gmail.com
CO-PRODUCTION
LES FILMS DE KA
Karen Adler
Tel. +33 (0) 6 11 88 63 60
karen.adler@mac.com
CONTACT CANNES
LES FILMS DE KA
Karen Adler
Tel. +33 (0) 6 11 88 63 60
karen.adler@mac.com
Gitanjali Rao
Tel. +91 98 2173 4885
gitanjalirao@gmail.com
After Printed Rainbow, released in 2006, this is Gitanjali Rao's second offering at La Semaine de la Critique. Once again, she celebrates the richness of Indian cinema, through the rare and precious art of animation. Here again, reality and its double collide as the very real romance between one of the street girls and a wretch is disembodied by the latter’s imagination of Bollywood. This is both a disenchanted but enchanting film on the illusions and beauty of cinema and on the unfortunate social circumstances of the country. TrueLoveStory reminds us of those great melodramas where love and lust are continually surrounded by a whiff of death.
Par Fabien Gaffez
