Just 25 years ago, the tandem masterpiece Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro came out on our screens, the strange, poetic and nightmarish "City of lost children". What has become of the revelation of the film, the very young Judith Vittet?
Just 25 years ago, on May 17, 1995, La Cité des enfants perdus was released on our screens. Immersed in a Steampunk universe unlike any other, the duo Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro delivered a masterpiece of sickly and strange poetry, a tale both wonderful and totally nightmarish, in which a character by the name of Krank, living as a recluse on a platform lost at sea in the midst of the fog, stole children's dreams so as not to age too quickly.
In addition to the fantastic visual universe created by the tandem, the film was also populated by a formidable gallery of freaks, embodied by magnificent actors: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork in the role of Krank, the old accomplice Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus and his circus of erected fleas, Rufus, Ticky Holgado, François Hadji-Lazaro in the role of a freezing killer cyclops. And of course the revelation of the film, the very young Judith Vittet, who camped the fragile but determined Miette.
Below, for the record, the trailer for the film.
Little brunette with sparkling eyes, Judith Vittet was spotted leaving her school, when she was 9 years old, and had played at Marion vernoux before making Ron Perlman crack in the colorful work of Jeunet / Caro. After having attended the sets of Claude Sautet (for Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud), the young lady will choose to devote herself to her cinema studies in Paris VIII, then keenly interested in the world of documentaries. Then she will found Judethik, a design brand for children. The cinema was ultimately only a brief enchanted parenthesis for Judith Vittet, who had gone to seek her fulfillment elsewhere.
For more than fifteen years, it is the design and the work on the textile material which imposed themselves on it. "At the age of eighteen, after graduating from high school, I went to the United States. I had cousins there who were artists. I started to collect different fabrics on the right and on the left , as well as small odds and ends to make bags and other things with it. When I came back to Paris, I continued and I started selling my different creations, just to make some money " explained the interested party in an interview in 2015. For five years, until 2014, she regularly worked as a costume designer for TV series.
36 years old today, and mother of a five-year-old child, she is still a self-taught textile artist, creating various works from recovered fabrics, and has set up her workshop in Aubervilliers, in the Paris region. In January 2018, Judith was curator for the city of Guyancourt on the "DOUDOUS!" Project, a tribute to textile art with a scenography staging the inhabitants of the city through participatory workshops. She transmits her passion by working with different audiences (schools, retirement homes, people with disabilities), and by creating participatory and / or collective works. She also teaches at the Beauvaisis art school in the textile section. If you want to know his news and browse his amazing creations, visit the home page of his site.
