Nouvelles

21 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Gerardmer 2021 : Possessor will be screened in official competition

    Possessor is a Canadian science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg. The film stars Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Possessor had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020 and was released in the U.S. and Canada on October 2, 2020 by Neon and Elevation Pictures. It was released in the UK on November 27, 2020 by...

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21 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Gerardmer 2021 : Mosquito state will be screened in official competition

    “ For all the vampiric bloodletting in genre films, I felt like the mosquito, man’s deadliest enemy, was thoroughly unexplored and, after reading Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys, I became fascinated by those hidden away “quants” who made high-frequency trading go. This unlikely pairing became the basis for Mosquito State. 2007 was the year I moved to Los Angeles. It now feels distant, but also strangely immediate. Many cultural events have fused with post Y2K...

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21 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Gerardmer 2021 : Anonymous Animals will be screened

    "Les Animaux Anonymes draws its origin from an obsessive image: that of a horse attacking man under carnivorous impulses. This nightmarish unconscious image came to nourish other very real ones, stemming from a rural childhood. Because of my proximity to a natural environment, I was the privileged observer of a wild nature, but also the witness of a fatal hold of man on the animal through exploitation and hunting. These paintings, sometimes bloody, macabre, cruel,...

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21 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Gerardmer 2021: The Swarm will be screened in official competition

    "What interested me about this story was that it was a film of today, a film that, through its fantastic dimension, spoke directly about us, about the great imbalance that affects the world and agriculture in particular. (...) It all begins when Virginie understands that you have to give her locusts something extra. It's not pesticides, it's not food, it's a part of herself. It's by completely abandoning herself to her production that she explodes her output.... This...

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21 january 2021

  • VOD

    The wanting mare in US cinemas and VOD Nationwide on February 5, 2021

    Nothing can prepare audiences for the secrets, seduction, and sights of The wanting mare, an intimate, dramatic fantasy epic written and directed by renowned digital artist Nicholas Ashe Bateman (visual effects supervisor of David Lowery's upcoming The Green Knight). A technical marvel of digital world-building and independent ambition, the sprawling vistas, fantastical sights, and otherworldly tableaus of The wanting mare were lensed almost entirely...

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