Country: Belgium
Year: 2010
Duration: 88'
vampires A Belgian TV channel is contacted by a community of vampires who are bored with their immortality. They would like to make a reportage on their condition. After a couple of failed attempts that end up cosing the life of the journalists who were sent out, a troupe finally manages to enter into the daily life of a vampire family composed of the parents, Georges and Bertha Saint-Germain, and their two children: Samson, who is a lazy dolt, and Grace, who is in the throes of endless adolescent crises. “Vampires is a political comedy, a satire on humanity, in which appearances and reality are in constant opposition. After all, laughter is a pleasant, almost subconscious, way to questions ourselves. One of the strong points of genre cinema is its ability to evoke our anxieties and demons without a true awareness that we are learning anything from it. In Vampires, this combination of three genres – documentary, B movie and comedy – creates room for entertainment but also offers a critical look at our contradictions and our guilt.”
Biography
film director
Vincent Lannoo
Vincent Lannoo (Brussels, Belgium, 1970) studied theater before enrolling at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Brussels. He has made video clips and commercials and has also made various shorts, including J’adore le cinéma (1998), which was selected for the Festival international du court métrage in Clermont-Ferrand and won the Golden Iris at the Montreal World Film Festival. In 2001 he directed the fake documentary Strass, following the rules of Von Trier’s Dogma. In 2010 he competed at the Torino Film Festival with Vampires, which participated at many international festivals, winning best film, the Audience Award and best screenplay at the Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
Meilleurs vœux (cm, 1995), Xmas in Space (1997), J’adore le cinéma (cm, 1998), Strass (2001), Ordinary Man (2004), Vampires (2010), Little Glory (2012), Au nom du fils (2012).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Vincent Lannoo
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Vincent Lannoo, Frederique Broos
fotografia/cinematography
Vincent Van Gelder
montaggio/film editing
Frederique Broos
scenografia/production design
Valerie Andre
suono/sound
Guilhem Donzel, Sarah Gouret
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Carlo Ferrante (Georges), Vera Van Dooren (Bertha), Pierre Lognay (Samson), Fleur Lise Heuet (Grace), Baptiste Sornin (Bienvenu), Selma Alaoui (Elisabeth), Benedicte Bantuelle (la carne/The Meat)
produttore/producer
John Engel
produzione/production
Left Field Ventures
coproduzione/coproduction
Belgacom
vendita all’estero/world sales
House of Film
