31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
AFTER HOURS

AU NOM DU FILS

IN THE NAME OF THE SON
by Vincent Lannoo
Country: Belgium
Year: 2012
Duration: 82'


There are some people for whom religion is a daily commitment to their own community. Elisabeth is one of these people, a woman of solid faith, always ready to help others and actively spreading the Catholic message, in part through her radio program. When she meets Father Achille, Elisabeth’s certainties are rock-solid, but slowly but surely the aura of positivism that surrounds her life begins to crack, uncovering lies and ambiguities. Until a tragic epilogue undermines her faith in the church and her colleagues.

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).

Declaration

film director

“The moments of revenge are constructed in a subtle, allusive way. I wanted them to be both happy and amoral in order to attack them at the end of the movie and show that revenge is, above all, senseless, and should make do with living in the imagination. In my films I have often dealt with the monster we all carry within; today, I find it interesting to search for the sources of the monster. And here’s one: the blindness of faith, in the form of a black comedy.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Vincent Lannoo
SCENEGGIATURA
Vincent Lannoo, Philippe Falardeau, Albert Charles
FOTOGRAFIA
Vincent van Gelder
MONTAGGIO
Frédérique Broos
SCENOGRAFIA
Vivian Sassen
COSTUMI
Christophe Pidre, Florence Scholtès
MUSICA
Michelino Busceglia
SUONO
Guilhem Donzel, Matthieu Michaux, Philippe Charbonnel
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Astrid Whettnall (Elisabeth), Achille Ridolfi (padre/father Achille), Phillipe Nahon (padre/father Taon), Zacharie Chasseriaud (Jean-Charles), Albert Chassagne (Albert)
PRODUTTORE
Lionel Jadot
PRODUZIONE
Yoni Productions, Hands Up
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