Dreaming Like Louis

Rever comme lui

It's summer. Louis and Paul are on holiday in a bourgeois chateau in the deep countryside. It is hot, the house is empty, and the lovers are alone. They make love, play tennis, go for walks, and sleep at night and sometimes during the day.
But the couple is in crisis. And Louis takes refuge in his dreams, which shift between desire and repulsion, paranoia and destruction.

DIRECTING

Valentin Merz

SCRIPTWRITING

Valentin Merz
Claude Muret

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Charlotte Marchal

SOUND

Miguel Moraes Cabral
César Fernandez

EDITING

Léa Chatauret
Antonio Trullen

PRODUCTION

Terrain Vague & Andrea Film

WITH

Simon Frenay
Léon David Salazar
Jean-Charles de Quillacq
Catherine Barbier
Emmanuel Martin

FESTIVALS (a selection)

Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, 2020
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, 2020
GAZE International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, 2020
Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival, 2020
Shanghai Queer Film Festival, 2020
Pink Screens Bruxelles, 2020
Chéries-Chéris, 2020
Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival, 2020
Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival, 2020
Reel Out Charlotte Film Festival, 2020
Festival Mix: Cine y Diversidad Sexual/ Film & Sexual Diversity, 2020
PRIDE Queer Film Festival, 2020
Giornate di Cinema Queer, 2020

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

Fiction, HD, 19 min. Color / 1.66:1 / 2.0 Stereo Sound Language: French