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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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