La vanité

Lionel Baier

Switzerland/France | V.O. French | 2015 | 75 min | DCP | color | Fiction

David Miller is so ill that he 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 is meant to be his last, will Death be taking him?

Distribution
Director Lionel Baier
Music Dimitri Chostakovitch, Claude Nougaro
Cinematographer Patrick Lindenmaier
Screenplay Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux
Cast Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgiev
Production BANDE À PART FILMS, LES FILMS DU POISSON
Distribution AXIA FILMS

Biographie

Lionel Baier

Lionel Baier was born in Lausanne in 1975 into a Swiss family of Polish origin. As of 1992, he has been programming and co-managing the Cinema Rex in Aubonne. Since 2002, Lionel Baier has been in charge of the Film Department of the Lausanne Cantonal Art School (ECAL). In November 2009, Lionel Baier founded Bande à part Films together with filmmakers Ursula Meier, Frédéric Mermoud and Jean-Stéphane Bron.