Nouvelles

10 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : Come True , discover the teaser

    The new dark sci-fi thriller from the director of Our House with executive producer Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice, In the tall Grass), starring Julia Sarah Stone (Honey Bee, The Killing) and Landon Liboiron (Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare.) Come Tue is the newest feature from acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician Anthony Scott Burns (Our House, Holiday’s Father’s Day segment) and executive produced by cult...

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10 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : Kakegurui will have its Canadian Premiere

    Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler is a 2019 Japanese film adaptation of a manga series of the same name by Homura Kawamoto. It is directed by Hayato Kawai, distributed by GAGA Pictures, and stars Minami Hamabe and Mahiro Takasugi as Yumeko Jabami and Ry?ta Suzui respectively. It was released in Japan on May 3, 2019. Bienvenue à l’académie privée Hyakkaoh où les jeunes privilégiés poursuivent leurs...

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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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