Project Detail

L'Annulaire (The Ring Finger)

Name: L'Annulaire (The Ring Finger)
Director: Diane Bertrand
Genre: Literary Adaptation, Woman Director, Drama
Released: 2006
Duration: 100 minutes

Anna Leader

Synopsis

Iris (Olga Kurylenko) slices off her ring finger while working at a soft-drink factory. This distressing incident prompts her to quit her job; she then moves to a nearby port town, where she takes a position as a laboratory assistant for a tightly wound curator (Marc Barbé). His peculiar line of business involves preserving personal belongings that recall specific memories for his clients; a lock of hair, for example, or a piece of music. Iris drifts into an increasingly fetishistic relationship with her boss while also pining for an ethereal, enigmatic sailor (Stipe Erceg) who shares her hotel room during the hours she is at work.

Details

Year: 2006
Type of project: Features
Running time: 100 minutes
Format: 35mm
Director: Diane Bertrand
Producer: Bertrand Faivre, Kate Ogborn, Dagmar Jacobson, Soledad Gatti-Pascual
Co-Producer: Bertrand Faivre, Kate Ogborn, Dagmar Jacobson, Soledad Gatti-Pascual
Editor: Nathalie Langlade
Screenwriter: Diane Bertrand based on the novel by Yoko Ogawa
Director of Photography: Alain Duplantier
Sound: Laurent Zeilig, Alexandre Widmer, Vincent Arnardi
Composer: Beth Gibbons
Principal cast: Olga Kurylenko, Marc Barbé, Stipe Erceg, Edith Scob, Hanns Zischler

Genre

Literary Adaptation Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Les Films du Veyrier

282, rue des Pyrénées
75020 Paris, France

T +33 1 42 01 38 15

info@veyrier-films.com

The Bureau

mail@thebureau.co.uk

Integral Films

Sales Company

Pyramide International

5, rue du Chevalier de Saint-Georges
75008 Paris, France

T +33 1 42 96 02 20

info@pyramide-films.com

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