L'arbre sous la mer (1985)
Based on a book by Nikos Athenassiadis titled A Naked Young Girl, this slight, uneven fantasy-romance takes place on an isolated Greek island with a unique, petrified tree -- a part of the reason why Mathieu, a geologist (Christophe Malavoy) has arrived to do some research there. Other than the boatman who ferries back and forth to the mainland, the island's only inhabitants are a fisherman and his very pretty daughter Eleni (Eleni Drogoumi). Eleni seems a bit different right from the beginning; on the one hand, she likes wandering around dressed only in a long shirt, and on the other, she has a penchant for swimming all night with the dolphins. When the usually arrogant geologist starts transferring some of his interest from rocks to Eleni's comings-and-goings, he wonders if there is not something fishy about her parentage.
Director: Philippe Muyl
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Christophe Malavoy as Mathieu |
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Eleni Dragoumi as Eléni |
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Julien Guiomar as Thomas |
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Yavuz Özkan as Thomas |
| Directing | Philippe Muyl | Director |
| Writing | Nikos Athanassiadis | Novel |
| Writing | Philippe Muyl | Writer |
| Production | Philippe Muyl | Producer |
| Production | Georges Pellegrin | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Luc Le Masne | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Bernard Lutic | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Christian Pétron | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Jean-François Goyet | Editor |
| Art | Nikos Meletopoulos | Production Design |
| Sound | Jonathan Liebling | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Gérard Lamps | Sound |
