Nouvelles

09 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : I WeirDo

    Originally from Taiwan, filmmaker Liao Ming-Yi had no intention of directing a romantic comedy intensely relevant in this time of pandemic, but he did and we are lucky to have him. Shot with an iPhone, his first feature film is a success, thanks to an inspired art direction, carefully applied to every aspect. At the heart of the film are the performances of Austin Lin and Nikki Hsieh (both Golden Horse Award winners) as sympathetic misfits, which become even better...

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09 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Ivan, the Terrirble, World Premiere

    The ribald cousin of José Mojica Marins, Ivan Cardoso, is the great undiscovered figure of Brazilian genre cinema. For the first time, with Ivan, the Terrirble, he speaks on camera about his life and films. Blending comedy, horror and sex, Cardoso established himself as one of Brazil's greatest genre filmmakers with movies like Nosferatu in Brazi (1970), The Secret of the Mummy (1982), and Seven Vampires (1986). In a decades-spanning career, Cardoso blended...

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09 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Jesters : the game changers

    After mastering imaginative comedy populated with extravagant characters during the Joseon Dynasty with The Grand Heist, filmmaker Kim Joo-ho reappears with Jesters: the game changers, which is strangely based on documented "facts" about King Sejo. Combining burlesque, colourful dialogue and surreal shots that often hang by a thread, this cheerful fantasy comedy gradually shifts to historical drama. But tone breaking is not the only speciality of Korean cinema -...

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08 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020: 12 hour Shift

    Brea Grant (who also wrote and starred in the Fantasia 2020 film Lucky) has always shown real talent, both as an actress in films such as Rob Zombie's After Midnight and Halloween II, and as a writer and director for her work on the Emmy-nominated LGBTQ series Eastsiders. She has continued to impress the film community with her popular film Best Friends Forever (2020), a testament to her talent for telling poignant stories. It is finally with this second feature film...

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08 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020: Shakespeare's Shitstorm in World Premiere

    25 years after Tromeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare's The Tempest becomes: #ShakespearesShitstorm a supreme satire with Kaufman sauce of this best of worlds, intolerant of different opinions, allergic to micro-aggressions and complaining excessively. Here comes back our dear uncle Lloyd and his gang of Tromanarchists, who give a well-deserved finger of honour to the ambient hyper-hypocrisy, and who laughs in the face of the United States of Decency. A hurricane of...

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