Raging Rose

by Julia Kowalski

Synopsis

Jozef, a blue-collar Pole, arrives in France to work in construction, but also to find his son Roman, whom he abandoned 15 years earlier.

His boss’s daughter, Rose, a teenager in the tumult of sexual awakening, offers to help him in his search. She ends up falling desperately in love with Roman, their encounter having an unexpected impact on both their teenage lives.

Specifications

France/Poland  2015  80mn  2.00:1  5.1  French & Polish  1st Feature Film

Original title: Crache Coeur 

written by

Julia Kowalski

original title

Crache Coeur

produced by

Les Films de Françoise (France), Mina Driouche, Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm

Donten & Lacroix (Poland), Maria Blicharska, Monika Sajko Gradowska

with

Liv Henneguier (Rose)

Yoann Zimmer (Roman)

Andrzej Chyra (Jozef)

Artur Steranko (Bogdan)

Crew list

Simon Beaufils, DOP

Martial Salomon, Editor

Philippe Deschamps, François Mereu, Xavier Thieulin, Sound

Daniel Kowalski, Music

Festivals & Awards

  • Cannes 2015 – ACID- World Premiere
  • T-Mobile New Horizon- Poland
  • Busan – International Premiere – Flash Forward Competition
  • Hamburg – Voilà ! – Germany
  • Alice nella Città – Panorama – Rome, Italy
  • Cottbus, Germany- Special Mention 
  • Tubingen French Film Festival, Germany- Competition
  • Scanorama, Lithuania
  • Amiens, France – Competition – Best Actress Award
  • Angers – Premiers Plans, France- Competition – Youth Award
  • French Institute in Athens (Greece)
  • Minneapolis St Paul Film Festival (US)
  • New York Polish Film Festival

Filmography

Musique de Chambre (short feature film) 

Raging Rose is her 1st feature length