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SATIE AND SUZANNE

53 minutes
Grades 10 - Adult
Stereo Sound
Produced by Rhombus Media
A film by Tim Southam
Music: Erik Satie
Performed by: Reinbert de Leeuw

Another very unusual exploration of a musician's life by the
wonderful Rhombus Media. In 1893, French composer Erik Satie
had a brief but passionate love affair with painter Suzanne
Valadon. Seventeen years later, the river Seine breaks its
banks, flooding most of Paris. Pursued by the surging waters
Suzanne (Veronica Tennant) seeks refuge in an after hours cafe
in Monmartre. There she encounters her former lover Erik Satie
(Nicholas Pennell). As the floodwaters rise, the cast of
trapped cafe denizens, including four exotic contortionists
and a jester from the Cirque du Soleil, blend their expressive
styles. The poignant story of reconciliatory love unfolds and
we are entranced by the cafe patrons' fantastical machinations
set against Erik Satie's mystical piano works. The
choreography is by the Cirque de Soleil's Debra Brown.

Awards: Best Unique Cinematography, Canadian Society of
Cinematographers Awards; Certificate of Merit, Worldfest
Houston; Golden Sheaf Nominations, Yorkton Film Festival

• -"Tim Southam has superbly captured both the wit and eerie
  melancholy of Erik Satie's music in his beautifully conceived
  film...typical of the work of the world-renowned Canadian
  company, Rhombus Media...The film is exquisite and
  entertaining without ever compromising the integrity of the
  art at its centre." The (Toronto) Globe and Mail
  

• -"...a film that is full of grace and wonderment, propelled
  by the strains of Saties music and his writings." The Ottawa
  Citizen
  

• -"Watching Satie and Suzanne is pure pleasure." The Toronto
  Star
  

DANCE, DRAMA, MUSIC

ISBN:1-56029-622-4

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