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FRANCE | 85 minutes | 2019
A former screenwriter for François Ozon (Under the Sand, 8 Women), Marina de Van (In My Skin) asserts her position as the most provocative woman’s voice in French cinema today. In the age of swiping right and one-night stands, the 40-something filmmaker takes a candid look at sex, love and the naked flesh, questioning how we relate to others. Venting her spleen — not without humour — on our relationship to sexuality, she uses her own body as a stand-in for an image of womanhood all too often censored by society. The female body as a polemic in a taboo-pushing film equally teasing and disturbing.NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE"... one of the most vital and original French filmmakers of our time does not disappoint. De Van has succeeded in telling us something fundamental that demands an urgent rethinking of what nudity on film means" AWFJ« Il y a dès les premiers instants de Ma nudité ne sert à rien un sentiment d’authenticité totale... » Le Polyester
Rotterdam Film Festival
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- Dark Touch – feature (2013) – Denis-de-Rougemont, Mad Movies and Narcisse awards at Neuchâtel IFFF- Hop-o'-My-Thumb – feature (2011) - Don’t Look Back – feature (2009) – Cannes Film Festival
A meteorite falls to Earth near Arkham. Soon, the place is overrun by the shadows. Death stalks the town, madness reigns, and it starts to look like the...
Feature film, Fiction
PORTUGAL, UNITED STATES | 111 minutes | 2019
Quentin Dupieux’s latest is a serial-killer film about a jacket that wants to kill all other jackets and its unhinging effect on its owner. What starts...
FRANCE | 77 minutes | 2019
The best part of the fight happens behind the scenes, according to Vampiro (aka Ian Richard Hodgkinson). Here’s proof. A wrestling star famous for his...
Feature film, Documentary
ONTARIO, CANADA | 88 minutes | 2019
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