Camera d’Or Year 9 (1986): Claire Devers’s “Noir et Blanc” (“Black and White”)

Claire Devers directed Noir et Blanc (Black and White), which won the Camera d’Or prize at the 1986 Cannes Film Fest.
Noir et Blanc

 

Cast
Francis Frappat, Antoine
Jacques Martial, Dominique
Catherine Belkhodja, la femme de ménage
Joséphine Fresson, Edith
Benoît Régent, l’hôtelier
Marc Berman, Roland
Credits:
Directed by Claire Devers
Screenplay: Devers, loosely based on Tennessee Williams’s story, “Le Masseur noir”
Produced by Claude-Eric Poiroux
Cinematography Daniel Desbois, Christopher Doyle, Alain Lasfargues
Jean-Paul Rosa da Costa
Edited by Fabienne Alvarez-Giro, Yves Sarda
Distributed by Forum Distribution
Release date: 1986
Running time: 80 minutes

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