Sapphire Crystal

director: Virgil Vernier

original title: Sapphire Crystal

country: France, Switzerland

year: 2019

running time: 31 min.

synopsis

Three places and three moments spent with the Geneva Golden Youth. For his documentary, the director organized a workshop with students from the prestigious HEAD School of Art and Design in Geneva to get to know the young men and women who are well-accustomed to a life of luxury and who like to kill time having long discussions in the nightclub, snorting cocaine and sipping champagne. The director sees the film as a highly subjective vision, a kind of pseudo-ethnological work in which some formal elements show hints of irony. Here he acts as an amused moralist and observer trying to break into a world riddled with lavish parties, drugs and all-pervasive vanity.

biography

French director and actor Virgil Verniere (1976) combines fiction, documentary and mythology in his films. From the films: Karine (2001), Chroniques de 2005 (2007), Autoproduction (2009), Pandore (2010), Mercuriales (2014), Sophia Antipolis (2018).

more about film

director:	Virgil Vernier
cast:	Edward Klein, Inès Thurre, Lou Cohen , Matteo Scarpino , Maxime Brueggler, Medhi Faris , Mélissa Homsi, Olivia De la Baume, Sarah Maria , Thibault Rosseti , Doroteja Gajic
producer:	Jean Des Forets, Marie Dubas
script:	Virgil Vernier
editing:	Charlotte Cherici
music:	Nicolas Mollard
sound:	Simon Apostolou

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