French Roast

French Roast is a French computer-animated short film by Fabrice Joubert from the year 2008.

Action

A man sitting in a Parisian café, reading the newspaper and ordered a coffee. In between, appears a beggar who collects paper in front of the café and asks the man to make a donation, but what he refuses. When the man wants to pay for his coffee, he finds that he has forgotten his wallet. In desperation, he ordered the whole day more cups of coffee and the bill is getting longer.

At the table next to a little old woman has settled. When the beggar appears again, she gives him a thick bundle of notes from a note. Then the woman falls asleep again, the desperate man trying to steal from them, but can not open their pocket. A policeman appears and hangs in the cafe on a wanted poster, showing a man. In the evening, when the policeman is already asleep drunk in the arm of the man, the man opened the bag of old woman and found in it a mask that resembles the phantom image. It is held by the waiter for this man and it comes to chaos as the awakened hurry policeman clumsily umherschlingert and the beggar appears at the cafe, and slips his collected papers flying around in space.

The old woman comes, the mask takes quietly blaming itself, leaves the café and drives away in a bus. The beggar eagerly gathers his paper and the waiter presented the man's latest coffee bill. When the man breaks down in tears on the invoice, the beggar suddenly puts the bill on the bill, which he had received from the old woman. The waiter takes them and gives the man even change out. The beggar is leaving the cafe and the man is left astonished.

Production

Joubert developed the idea to French Roast during his time at DreamWorks in Los Angeles; as a cause for playing in a Parisian cafe act he called Paris nostalgia during his time in LA. A model for the style and humor of the film are the works of Jacques Tati, while the color scheme on films like Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce The girl and Stanley Donen Charade recourse.

The film was produced from the summer of 2007. Initially Joubert worked three months with students of the Ecole Georges Méliès in Paris, and then one years with 65 artists and technicians of the film production company Bibo in Montreuil.

French Roast experienced on 30 October 2008 at the Festival Voix d' Stars premiered.

Awards

French Roast was nominated in 2010 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against Logorama itself.

On the Córdoba International Animation Festival ( ANIMA ) Fabrice Joubert was awarded a prize for best animated film.