Nouvelles

08 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020: Beauty Water will do its North European Premiere

    Beauty is always superficial, but scenes of bodily horror still make us shudder to the bone. Adapted from a very popular web comic, Beauty Water is director Cho Kyung-hun's first feature film. Horror in animation is definitely very hard to achieve. We can hardly fear for the lives of drawn characters. After all, we've seen them so often crushed by pianos or anvils, and then carry on as if nothing had happened. Cho Kyung-hun decided to focus not on what might kill us, but...

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08 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020: The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw

    Set during the 1973 harvest season, The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is a strangely nightmarish horror drama, steeped in folklore, brimming with atmosphere and vibrant with imagery that will haunt your subconscious. Writer and director Thomas Robert Lee (Empyream) brings to life a disturbing and surprising occult horror film. The film gives the impression of stepping out of a veritable canton of mystical knowledge, while at the same time ranking among the darkest coming-of-age...

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08 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Anything for Jackson

    Anything for Jackson is a clever, often funny and deliciously petty story about an elderly satanist couple who are literally ready for anything in the name of love. Keith Cooper's screenplay is constantly surprising, alternately funny, mean and progressively more intense as the film progresses, while director Justin G. Dyck happily dives into both the dark and comedic aspects. It is also the combination of the two lead roles played by Sheila McCarthy and Julian Richings, and the...

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08 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020: Alone discover the trailer

    Many of us were waiting for the director of Universal soldier: day of reckoning (2012) to give us with Alone a new dose of action and suspense on the big screen. Alone is a thriller that will keep us on the edge of our seats thanks to the performances of Jules Wilcox and Marc Menchaca and the work of cinematographer Federico Verardi, Kohn Hyams (who is also co-editor) creates a solid and realistic suspense that will have its international premiere at the Fantasia...

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08 august 2020

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    Fantasia 2020 : Clapboard jungle

    So, you want to make a movie? The tools are getting easier and easier to acquire, but finding financing and distributing a feature film are bigger challenges than ever. These are the perilous waters that independent filmmakers like Justin McConnell have been navigating since the early 2000s, and which he explores in this documentary shot over a period of several years. Beginning with his childhood inspirations and aspirations, and continuing into adulthood while...

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