Fiction short films

A CERTAIN KIND OF ANIMAL

Marcel GIBAUD
1961
Version : French, English
Duration : 11'
Format : 35 mm.
Colors
Scriptwriter : Marcel GIBAUD
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country France
With Annie LAVEDAN, Elyane MARTEL
Music Guy BERNARD
Picture Marcel GIBAUD
Stage set Sandy beach
Archive footage - Woman walking on a sandy beach,
- Close-ups of a woman's face: blowing on her fingers, smelling a bouquet of roses, sticking out her tongue, drinking a glass of champagne, biting into an apple, asleep.

Original title : Un Certain animal

Two characters confront each other in this film: the multi-faceted woman, at turns a wild young girl and a sophisticated socialite, and, opposite her, the microscope that examines her with a mocking eye. Female charms flash across the screen, magnified several hundred times. We go from the eyes to the lips, from the teeth to the hair, from the bones that make up the silhouette to the muscles that adorn it. Once the tour is over, the microscope takes an ironic look at the various chemical components of a beautiful female body: sugar, salt, coal, metals and, above all, water, the 74% of water that goes into the recipe for beauty.