18/05/2005

"It seems as if I spent three years at the bottom of a well to make this film". The words of the French filmmaker Yves Caumon before yesterday’s screening at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors Fortnight) of Cache cache [+see also:
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Cache cache depicts the strange story of an expropriated farmer who now squats his own house and hides in the garden well when the new owners move in. The film starts as an observing and voyeuristic comedy, and a kind social satire before getting deeper in more gloomy themes such as non-communication, exclusion and country world disappearance. The film had a bad reception from the public in spite of the wrongly naïve approach and the performance of Bernard Blancan as the main character who is dumb.

Produced by Sunday Morning Productions with a budget amounting to 1.8 million euros, Cache cache was granted an advance payment of 450 000 euros from CNC and was backed by the Centre (130 000 euros for the script) and Midi-Pyrénées regions. Presold to Canal +, and distributed in France by Les Films du Losange, it is sold abroad by Films Distribution.

(Translated from French)