La Belle Rosine

directed by Gaetan Verdikt

After giving a lecture, a visiting professor is seduced by the women of the city which leads to a set of difficult circumstances.

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Format: Fiction
Role: Cinematographer
Director: Gaetan Verdikt

In La Belle Rosine, a visiting professor is seduced by the women of the city, and the film charts the difficult circumstances that follow. Director Gaetan Verdikt stages the story as a slow entanglement, and the photography leans into that mood: warm, flattering interiors that mirror the professor’s self-image, set against a city that owes him nothing. The framing indulges him before the story starts to take him apart, so the images carry the same irony as the script.