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Benoît Mariage, born in 1961, is a press photographer and
film director. He also teaches at the IAD (Institut des Arts de
Diffusion) in Louvain-la-Neuve. After graduating with a Law
degree, he turned to his original passion - images - and studied
at the INSAS (national film academy) in Brussels.
Mariage did many reportages for the RTBF programme 'Strip-Tease', and then directed numerous documentaries produced by his own company, TRAM 33. His only short fiction, 'Le Signaleur', produced by K2, was awarded prizes in many international festivals including the First Prize in the nternational Critics' Week at Cannes in 1997. 'Les Convoyeurs Attendent' is his first full-length feature.
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Note from the Director:
To begin with, the film was constructed like a mosaic. Each of the characters, with his needs and expectations, fit into the pattern of the mosaic. Today, when the finished film is viewed, the father emerges as the central figure. At first sight he may seem stupid and violent. But I really like this father. I love his unflagging energy, I feel close to his fears, and I find a host of attenuating circumstances to excuse his behaviour.
Obviously the film can only live through the relationship the father creates with the audience... So I hope (it is a major challenge for me) that the audience too will see in him something more than a selfish jerk leading his family into catastrophe. I hope that they will discover in this father a completely awkward but infinitely well-meaning 'Don Quixote', like so many fathers I see around me... like the father I myself may be one day...
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