Film maker Yann Gonzalez has no nightmares, just dreams

HAVING grown up in the idyllic Côte d’Azur town of Antibes, Yann Gonzalez’s journey to the Cannes Film Festival was a relatively short one.

“I went to high school in Cannes so I had the chance to go very early to the film festival,” he recalls. “I think the first time it was at the age of 14 or 15, and it was amazing to go to the festival at such a young age. It was such a boring city so when the festival was coming it was like the big event.”

From 2006 to 2012, a number of his short films played the festival’s sidebar events Critics Week and Director’s Fortnight before his feature-length debut launched at Critics Week. Perplexingly described as a French sex comedy, those expecting a Gallic Carry on up the Côte will find You and The Night a far more mysterious, surreal and sensual proposition.