Pascal Humbert has composed music for the French movie "La Cage" ("The Cage"), under his Lilium moniker. "La Cage" is directed by Alain Raoust, who also directed "La Vie Sauve" and "Attendre Le Navire".

Summary:
Though only 25-years-old, Anne (Caroline Ducey) has already spent seven years in prison for murder; now, after a year on parole, she is released back into the outside world. Aware that it will take time to adjust to her new life, and that many will always see her as a monster, she has come to the conclusion that there is one thing she must do before she can consider herself truly free. So begins a difficult odyssey...

With its long takes, spare dialogue and low-key performances, Alain Raoust’s film takes a while to reach the bitter confrontation that constitutes its dramatic climax, but the journey - for Anne, both geographical (climbing higher and higher into the Provencal Alps) and spiritual - is so richly rewarding that the emotional force of the later scenes derives from the quiet understatement of what preceded them.

There’s fine naturalistic work from the cast - most especially Ducey (best known for Catherine Breillat’s Romance) - but it is above all Raoust’s sense of detail, his assured control of mood, and his eloquent use of Hélène Louvart’s magnificent landscape photography that make the film quite mesmerisingly beautiful.

by Geoff Andrew (of the Regus London Film Festival)

The film won a price at the Festival de Locarno 2002: Prix de la critique internationale Festival de Locarno. "La Cage" was also screened on the Vienna, London, Amiens and Ljubljana 2002 film festivals. The world première of "La Cage" took place on 4 September 2002 in France.

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"La Cage":

• Directed : Alain Raoust
• Cast : Caroline Ducey, Roger Souza, Nathalie Besançon, Philippe Cariou, Marie-Yvonne Schiltz, Jean-Noël Gayte, Beppe Clerici, Nicole Huc, Georges Garcin.
• Original Music : Lilium - Pascal Humbert