The Catalan director will compete for the first time with a story set in Tahiti, with translation by Benoit Magimel.
Benoit Majmail in Torment on the islands
Yesterday, very late in the day, Cannes Film Festival announce it Torment on the islands [+lire aussi :
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interview : Albert Serra
fiche film]The new work of the Spanish director Albert Serrawhich elicits the impatience we can imagine, was part of the final batch of titles selected for its international competition, now featuring 21 films in total, (readArticle – Commodity). Torment on the islands, which constitutes a slight inflection, or rather an advance, compared to what this unique director does in general, brings Cinema Sierra to the present. This is a disturbing drama film set in Tahiti, one of the last overseas societies still associated with France.
The synopsis, which has just been revealed by the French distributor of the film, diamond moviesvery interesting: “On the island of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, the High Commissioner of the Republic de Roller, the representative of the French state, is a calculating man of exemplary manners. At official receptions as institutions of the underworld he always took the pulse of the locals who could sprout They are angry at any time. Especially since there is a pressing rumor: We have seen a submarine whose phantom presence will announce the resumption of French nuclear testing.”
As with his two previous films, freedom [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]Serra composed his band with a mix of stand-up comedians and non-professionals: Benoit Majmail He plays HC, cream suit, sunglasses (after a great season in French cinema, notably César for Best Actor for in his life [+lire aussi :
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During the post-production phase of the film, it was always a very intense phase in the monthly Spanish Sera Cinema Pictures He was able to extract some optional comments for an essay from the director’s mouth: “I wanted to talk about the contemporary world, but in a more exotic atmosphere, outside the usual urban and bourgeois context. Many of the contradictions of today’s world are becoming more and more evident in a place like Tahiti, because these are societies in which it arrives” The new “quickly and where this modernity contrasts with the old that still stands.” In film form, Serra explained, “The story has multiple subplots and sometimes, as here, I shoot different actors playing the same role.” The film’s (initial) length was announced at 163 minutes.
This film is a co-production between ideal audience (France), Andergraun movies (Spain), the company through which Serra himself produced the film, Tam Tam movies (Hamburg) and Rosa Films (Portugal). The film was supported byCinema ARTE Francewith Olivier Sr for co-production. International sales of the film are handled by movie store.
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