SCREEN AUSTRALIA AND JANE OEHR present

TEA WITH MADAME CLOS
a feature documentary by Jane Oehr

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screening at the Melbourne Int Film Festival
(25 Jul 2:30pm ACMI 2 and 2 Aug 4:45 ACMI 1)

SYNOPSIS
On  a train returning to South West France an Australian woman filmmaker       remembers Madame Clos, the oldest woman in a small bastide village and the many encounters and cups of tea she shares with her over four years. But France is changing. Will she still be there?

Madame Clos engages with the world around her through her huge window. There the filmmaker first finds her. There Madame Clos participates in the dramas of life around her. There she mourns the loss of her dear housekeeper, there she talks to her neighbours, to the Gendarmes as they pass, there she watches a wedding and the children in the school and debates philosophical values. As she approaches her 100th year, fragile but still vivacious she reveals the secret handed down from her mother.

An intense experience of time and place. of being in the moment and a meditation on ageing - this is a portrait of a vanishing way of life in France.

CREDITS

PRODUCED and DIRECTED by JANE OEHR           

FEATURE EDITOR: STEWART YOUNG, ASE - (TRAILER EDITOR: PAULO ALBERTON)

CAMERA:  JANE OEHR

MUSIC COMPOSED and PERFORMED by MARCELLO MAIO and CATHY LE MEE
           
POSTPRODUCTION MANAGER SANDRA ALEXANDER

POST PRODUCTION TECHNICAL SUPERVISION  PAULO ALBERTON

GRAPHICS TITLE DESIGN  MAYA STOCKS

Supervising Sound Editor: Andrew Plain
Sound Editor: Manel Lopez
Mixer: Michael Thompson
Foley:  Feet 'n' Frames
Sound Ediing Facility: Huzzah Sound
Sound Mixing Facility: Soundfirm
Post Production: The Lab Sydney
Post Production Manager: Prue Fletcher
Post Producer: Stewart Dean
Digital Media: Alex Reyes
Colourist: Annalie Chapple
Online Mastering: Jo Spillane
Legals: Caroline Verge
Insurance: H.W Wood
Accounting: MONEYPENNY SERVICES

SPECIAL THANKS TO CLAUDE ARCEDUC, JEAN PAUL ARCEDUC

THANKS TO
CLAIRE JAGER
ROWENA CROWE           
CATHERINE MENARD 
FANOU FILALI
NORMAN PARKHILL    
GREG ORR
ROSS STEELE                  
KEN CAMERON
CURTIS LEVY                  
JULIA OVERTON

COPYRIGHT ARNOTT’S BISCUITS LIMITED
REPRODUCED WITH THEIR PERMISSION

THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE OF LAUZERTE, TARN-ET-GARONNE  FRANCE
MADAME PAULETTE CLOS ARCEDUC 1908-2007

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