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Tales of the salt water
(Les chroniques de l'eau salée)
Tamerlan Bekmurzayev, Antoine Carré, Rodrigo Doulão de Sousa, Alexandra Petit, Martin Robic
- 2021
- France
- Animation
- 9mn
- Color
As summer ends, a young man is about to leave his family home.
A gentle sunny slice of life, filled with appealing poetry, that reminds of Isao Takahata’s sensibility.
Credits
- Screenplay : Tamerlan Bekmurzayev, Antoine Carré, Rodrigo Doulão de Sousa, Alexandra Petit, Martin Robic
- Photography : Tamerlan Bekmurzayev, Antoine Carré, Rodrigo Doulão de Sousa, Alexandra Petit, Martin Robic
- Editing : Tamerlan Bekmurzayev, Rodrigo Doulão de Sousa
- Music by : Jérémy Ben Ammar
- Production : Moïra Marguin (Les Gobelins)
My cupboard
(Mon placard)
Stéphane Blanquet & Olive
- 1998
- France
- Animation
- 7mn
- French
- Color
Locked for years in a cupboard, a child hopes to finally escape to remember the “joys of his childhood”.
Stéphane Blanquet adapts his graphic novel with Olive in this abominably cruel tale where child abuse meets the Frankenstein myth.
Credits
- Voiceover by : Barbara Tissier, Philippe Lemaître...
- Screenplay : Stéphane Blanquet
- Photography : Jacques Brassart
- Editing : Anouk Zivi, Franck Littot
- Music by : Albert Marcœur
- Production : Axel Guyot
Empty places
Geoffroy de Crécy
- 2020
- France
- Animation / Experimental
- 8mn30s
- Color
Created almost prophetically just before the world confinement, Empty Places imagines the solitude of machines rid of their creators, like a foretaste of apocalypse where the only life left on Earth would be these machines endlessly repeating their monotonous motions.
Credits
- Screenplay : Geoffroy de Crécy
- Animation : Dummy Films, Geoffroy De Crécy, Arnaud de Mulenheim
- Editing : Geoffroy de Crécy, Jane Chagnon
- Music by : L. van Beethoven
- Production : Autour de Minuit
The isle
(Seom)
Kim Ki-duk
- 2000
- South Korea
- Drama
- 1h30mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Aiming to end his life, Hyun-shik,who has just murdered his wife and her lover, flees to a small fisherman's island, where the beautiful and mysterious Hee-jin lives. Intrigued by this man’s suffering, she will grow fond of him. So begins a carnal relationship between these two lost souls.
Kim Ki Duk was discovered in France with the film The Isle (thanks to L’Étrange Festival in 2000) and it was his first one to be released here theatrically, and it was a blast. The unknown seemed revealed to us, a violently erotic world, a visual incarnation of Eros and Thanatos, a world where men are caught like fish and where reality is constantly overtaken by mythology, cruel tales, the spectral mist. The Isle remains an absolute masterpiece, extremely harrowing and hyper-sensual, a venomous liquid poem, that penetrates flesh and our emotions.
Credits
- With : Suh Jung, Kim Yu-seok, Park Sung-hee, Jo Jae-hyeon, Jang Hang-seon...
- Screenplay : Kim Ki-duk
- Photography : Hwang Seo-shik
- Editing : Kyeong Min-ho
- Music by : Jeon Sang-yun
- Production : Lee Eun
Message from space
(Uchu kara no messeji)
Kinji Fukasaku
- 1978
- Japan
- Science-fiction
- 1h45mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Brand new master
The inhabitants of planet Jillucia live under the rule of tyrant Rockseia XII. But the leader of the Jillucians refuses to submit. He turns to the god Liabé by dispersing eight divine nuts across the universe. Legend says that they will be able to discover the eight valiant warriors who will free the planet from the tyrant’s rule.
If we know Kinji Fukasaku for his brilliant Yakuza films, or his anarchist pinkus, we sometimes forget this wild and permanently inventive space opera, that surfed on the Star Wars wave, and had the largest budget in Japanese cinema. It mixes US inspirations with Japanese lore in a fabulous syncretism. Its considerable success gave birth to a cult series we all remember and are ready to sing the theme song: San Ku Kai.
Credits
- With : Sonny Chiba, Vic Morrow, Philip Casnoff, Tetsurō Tanba, Etsuko Shihomi...
- Screenplay : Hirô Matsuda
- Photography : Tōru Nakajima
- Editing : Isamu Ichida
- Music by : Ken'ichirō Morioka
- Production : Tôru Hirayama ; Akimasa Itô, Yûsuke Okada, Naoyuki Sugimoto, Simon Tse
Screenings
12/09 • 19h30 • Screen 300
Special evening hosted by Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Étienne Robial, Lolita Couturier & Elene Usdin
In partnership with Métal Hurlant
