Nouvelles

10 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : Jumbo

    Performed by Noémie Merlant (Portrait of the Girl on Fire), Jeanne is shy and socially unfit. She works at night in an amusement park. It is at night that Jeanne is truly happy, since her life at home is difficult: her mother (Emmanuelle Bercot, Mon Roi), a great extrovert and probably a little too attentive, never stops observing and analyzing her daughter's behaviour. Jeanne would like to find a boyfriend, just to put an end to the endless questions. One...

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09 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Fugitive dreams World premiere

    A field of red poppies rippling in the wind sums up the first minutes of Jason Neulander's Fugitive Dreams. With a touch of bright colour, we are transported to Dorothy's long lethargy in The Wizard of Oz. Suddenly, however, we return to the dark grey of a parched farm field. In the distance, the trees sway under a sky that doesn't bode well as John (Robbie Tann) and Mary (April Matthis) begin their journey. Co-scripted by director/producer Neulander from a...

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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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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 : 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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