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MADAME PETITE - STORYBOARD

 

 

P1 – INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE – EVA’S BEDROOM

 

Wide shot.

 

Angie is alone in the children’s bedroom, sad and depressed.  

Downstrairs, a little girl’s voice comes closer, counting to a 

hundred.

 

 

P2 – INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE – BEDROOM

 

Medium shot.

 

On the verge of tears, she slips into a plywood wardrobe  next to the bed.

 

 

P3 – INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE - Inside the wardrobe

 

Close-up.

 

Angie goes into wardrobe .

 

 

P3 – INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE  

 

Close-up.

 

Angie has her arms around her knees.

 

 

P4 - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE 

 

Close-up.

 

She breathes slowly and sobs silently.

 

 

P5 - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE 

 

Medium shot.

After a while, we hear the creak of footsteps on the bedroom floor.

 

 

P5 - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE – EVA’S BEDROOM

 

Medium shot.

 

Eva creeps into the wardrobe.

 

 

P6 - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE – EVA’S BEDROOM

 

Medium shot.

 

Eva looks into the wardrobe.

 

 

P7 - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE - CUPBOARD INTERIOR

 

Close-up.

Eva hasn’t noticed her, hidden by hanging clothes. She enters and closes the wardrobe. We hear just two people breathing inside the cupboard.

Eva : « Mummy ? »

Angie sniffs.

Eva : « Don’t cry... »

Angie tries to hold back her tears. Nobody says a word.

 

 

P8 a - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE - CUPBOARD INTERIOR

 

Close-up.

Eva holds the door of the wardrobe firmly shut  We hear another child coming into the bedroom.

Roxane’s voice : « Sebastien !  I see you ! ».

Sebastien’s voice : « Eva and her mum are in the cupboard ! »

Angie shakes her head.

Roxane : « Eva go come out ! Also Madam ! Found you ! »

Sebastien and Roxane run towards another hiding place and together prepare a plan.

 

 

 

P8 b - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE -

           CUPBOARD INTERIOR

 

Close-up.

 

 

 

P9 a - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE - CUPBOARD INTERIOR

 

Close-up.

 

Eva and Angie come out.

 

 

 

 

P9 b - INT DAY. SUBURBAN HOUSE

 

Close-up.

 

Angie wipes her eyes discreetly but her masacara has run and continues to sob in front of her daughter.

 

 

 

P10 - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN SALOON

 

Close-up.

 

In a model Kaufman and Broad suburban garden, a young man with an electric air pump pumps air into an inflatable castle in front of ten amazed children.

 

 

 

 

P11 - INT DAY. BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN SALOON

 

Close-up

 

 

 

P12 - INT DAY. THE LOUNGE OF BASTIEN’S SUBURBAN HOUSE

 

Wide shot.

 

 

 

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