
Cinetrā

Cinetrā

Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
Chicago International Film Festival 1982
Cast: Patrick Dewaere, Jacques Dutronc, Fanny Cottençon, Stéphane Audran, Philippe Léotard, François Dyrek, Anna Gaylor, Jean-Paul Muel, Francis Lemaire, André Thorent, Patrice Kerbrat, Jeanne Goupil, Caroline Berg, Pierre Hatet, Stéphane Bouy, Thalie Frugès, Nicole Gueden, Elisabeth Mortensen, Philippe Brigaud, Catherine Privat
Writers: Alain Jessua (Writer), André Ruellan (Writer)
Cinematographer: Jacques Robin
Production Designer: Constantin Mejinsky
Editor: Hélène Plemiannikov
Sound Designer: Claude Villand, Alain Lachassagne
Composer: Costin Miereaunu, René Koering
Costume Designer: Christine Guégan
Direction team: Annie Maurel (Script Supervisor)
Producers: Alain Jessua, Louis Duchesne
Production: Films A2, A.J. Films