The Meadow Mushroom


A film by Juliette Marchand  

13 min / animation /2003
Coproduction : Alter Ego / Arte France

with production support from the Region of Centre, the CNC (National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image) and Procirep-Angoa

In the bend of a country road, the city-dweller Jean falls in love with Hélène, a music-loving shepherdess. The conjugal happiness lasts one time, but the maintenance of the kitchen garden occupies Jean every day more, especially since a magnificent meadow mushroom went out of ground.
Gradually abandoned, Hélène can only attend, powerless, in the decay of her couple as the mushroom grows, grows…

Festival Selections:
Vendôme FF – 2003
Festival Ciné 32 – Auch – 2003

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