MIRAGE D'AMOUR
by Hubert Toint
synopsis
Pampa–Terminal is a saltpetre mine located in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile, as well as being a home for its workers, executives and a few families.
There is a chemist’s, a theatre for the workers, a bakery, a butcher, and a Chinese man who sells fireworks and balloons that catch fire in the air.
There are shops in the main shopping street. There are brothels in the brothel street. Everything is so simple in Pampa–Terminal.
There is also a hairdresser’s salon run by Alexandre Rivery – it is the place for union meetings. Alexander is an anarchist. In Pampa there are also guesthouses and taverns.
It is also exactly like this in all the other mines across the Atacama Desert, which also have their own cemeteries and brass bands, their corrupt cops as well as their honest men and women.
However, Pampa–Terminal is the town that the president has to pass through in order to declare the mine an "Official City". It will then be able to be marked on maps.
But above all, Pampa–Terminal is the fertile ground for the blossoming of the unique love story between Hirondelle Rivery del Rosario, a pianist for silent films, and Bello Sandalio, a jazz trumpeter.
original title: | Mirage d'Amour |
working title: | Mirage d'Amour avec Fanfare |
country: | Belgium, France, Switzerland |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Hubert Toint |
film run: | 97' |
release date: | BE 10/02/2016, FR 23/03/2016 |
screenplay: | Bernard Giraudeau |
cast: | Marie Gillain, Eduardo Paxeco, Jean-François Stévenin, Catalina Saavedra, Juan Quezada |
cinematography by: | Carlo Varini |
film editing: | Erik Lamens |
art director: | Verónica Astudillo |
costumes designer: | Loreto Vuskovic |
music: | Osvaldo Torres, Franck Malesieux, Marc Hoffelt |
producer: | Hubert Toint |
production: | Saga Film, Polaris Film Production & Finance, P.S. Productions, Umedia |
backing: | Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, RTBF, Wallimage, Office fédéral de la Culture suisse |