La Vanité
Vanity
David Miller is ill. And has decided to end it all. But despite his
best efforts to choose the place, the date, and the method, nothing works out as planned. All of those who said they would
be at his side back out. David Miller has no choice but to rely on the help of complete strangers: Esperenza, from the euthanasia
and assisted suicide association, and Tréplev, the young prostitute in the next room. At the end of this night, which was
meant to be his last, will death have taken him?
Director's Biography
LIONEL BAIER, born 1975, is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker
from Lausanne. In 2009, Baier founded Bande à part Films together with Ursula Meier. In the same year, CROSSING EUROPE paid
its Tribute to the Swiss filmmakers. Baier teaches at the ECAL – École cantonale d’art de Lausanne and co-chairs the Swiss
Film Archive. // Films (selection): Garçon stupide (Stupid Boy, 2004; CE’09), Comme des voleurs (Stealth, 2006; CE’09), Un
autre homme (Another Man, 2008; CE’09), Toulouse (2010), Low Cost (2013), Les grandes ondes (Longwave, 2011; CE’12), La vanité
(Vanity, 2015)
European Panorama Fiction 2016
Lionel Baier
Switzerland / France
2015
color
75 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux
Cinematography
Patrick Lindenmaier
Editing
Jean-Christophe Hym
Sound/Sounddesign Vincent Kappeler,
Raphaël Sohier, Stéphane Thiébaut
With
Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgiev
Producer(s)
Agnieszka Ramu, Frédéric Mermoud (Bande à part Films, CH), Estelle Fialon (Les Films du Poisson, FR)
Production
Bande à part Films Rue Mauborget 6 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@bandeapartfilms.com www.bandeapartfilms.com
Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Cannes International Film Festival 2015 – ACID
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere
Cannes International Film Festival 2015 – ACID
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere