Ponette / Alain Sarde présente ; une coproduction Les Films Alain Sarde, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma ; avec la participation de la Région Rhône-Alpes et du Centre National de la Cinématographie ; et avec la participation de Canal+ ; un film écrit and réalisé par Jacques Doillon ; produit par Alain Sarde.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Sarde, Alain, 1952- producer.
• Doillon, Jacques, 1944- screenwriter, director.
• Thivisol, Victoire, 1991- actor.
• Caton, Matiaz Bureau, actor.
• Schiltz, Delphine, actor.
• Serre, Léopoldine, actor.
• Trintignant, Marie, 1962-2003, actor.
• Nebout, Claire, actor.
• Beauvois, Xavier, actor.
• Sarde, Philippe, composer.
• Films Alain Sarde (Firm), producer.
• Rhône-Alpes cinéma (Firm), producer.
• Centre national de la cinématographie (France), producer.
• Studio Canal+, producer.
• Fox Lorber Home Video (Firm), distributor.
• Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

Language:

• English
• French

Subjects (All):

• Bereavement--Drama.
• Grief in children--Drama.
• Children and death--Drama.
• Bereavement in children--Drama.
• Children--France--Drama.
• Children.
• Bereavement in children.
• Children and death.
• Grief in children.
• Bereavement.
• France.

Genre:

• Motion pictures, French.
• Feature films.
• Drama.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
• polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Issys Moullineaux, France] ; Les Films Alain Sarde ; New York : Distributed by Fox Lorber Home Video, [1998]

Language Note:

In French with subtitles in English.

System Details:

• DVD; NTSC; stereo.
• digital
• optical
• stereo
• NTSC
• video file
• DVD video

Summary:

Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why can't her mother? Thrown into a new environment, however, Ponette begins to heal and grow up in spite of herself. While grappling with confusing religious issues, and trying to understand the meaning of life and death, the film delves into the magical world of a four-year old, where stuffed animals have extraordinary powers, dolls are more than inanimate objects, and God is someone you can talk to and expect an answer from.

Contents:

• Promise
• Saying goodbye
• Waiting for a miracle
• Off to school
• Child of God
• Mean child
• Resurrection
• "Learn to be happy."

Participant:

Victoire Thivisol (Ponette), Matiaz Bureau Caton (Matiaz), Delphine Schiltz (Delphine), Léopoldine Serre (Ada), Luckie Royer (Luc), Carla Ibled (Carla), Antoine du Merle (Antoine), Marie Trintignant (la Mère), Claire Nebout (la Tante), Aurélie Vérillon (la fille de l'Internat), Xavier Beauvois (le Père).

Credits:

Image [photography], Caroline Champetier ; montage [editor], Jacqueline Lecompte ; musique, Philippe Sarde ; subtitles, Andrew Litvack.

Notes:

• Originally released as a 1996 motion picture.
• Originally produced as a French motion picture in 1996.
• Special features: Trailer (3 min.); Production credits [text feature]; Filmographies & awards [text feature].
• Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize-Jacques Doillon, OCIC Award-Jacques Doillon, Sergio Trasatti Award-Jacques Doillon, and the Volpi Cup [for] Best Actress-Victoire Thivisol, at the 1996 Venice Film Festival.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

ISBN:

• 1572522747 :
• 9781572522749

OCLC:

39183870

Publisher Number:

• 720917502427
• FLV5024 Fox Lorber Home Video

Online:

The Tobias Wagner Library Fund Home Page