Philippe R. Doumic, The Twinkling Eye
Documentary by Laurence Doumic & Sébastien Cauchon
90 min - OCS - 2019
Synopsis
In the 1960s, Philippe Doumic – then a novice photographer – made a number of portraits of the rising young stars of French cinema: actresses, actors, filmmakers, etc.
Some of his images became icons of the New Wave and were reproduced all over the world. Others, while just as powerful, have remained surprisingly under-exposed. All of them lived for nearly six decades in a room in the Doumic family’s house in Sologne.
Thanks to a fortuitous set of circumstances, a persistent a film collector recently managed to align with the wishes of the photographer’s own daughter, a documentary filmmaker. Together they pay tribute to the singular talent of her very (perhaps too?) discreet father, who died in 2013.
Who was this photographer who began his career in the company of the film world elite, only to move away from it after a few years?
Through unpublished archives and numerous interviews, this film attempts to answer this question by combining the perspectives of its two creators, resulting in an intimate portrait of an unknown author of an unrivalled body work as well as the great names of the 7th art he captured during their early days: Godard, Bardot, Truffaut, Delon, Varda, Belmondo, Lelouch, Deneuve, Demy, Moreau, and more…
ÉQUIPE
- Direction Laurence Doumic & Sébastien Cauchon
- Production Michel Merkt
- Doumic Studio Sébastien Cauchon & Michel Roux
- Beall Productions Jean-Marie Nizan & Stéphane Bergouhnioux
- Director of production Marie de Labarre
- Photography Didier Portal
- Assistant director Francis Tesorio
- Sound Robin Aramburu
- Editing Michèle le Guervenel
- Music Born to Score
- Graphic design Quentin Darredeau
- Sound editing Raphaël Prat
- Sound mixing Mathias Rostagno
