Country: France, Spain, Belgium
Year: 2015
Duration:
Ten-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother on a remote island, in a village inhabited solely by women and young boys. In a hospital overlooking the ocean, all the boys are subjected to a strange medical treatment. Only Nicolas questions what is happening around him. He senses that his mother is lying to him, and is determined to find out what she does with the other women at night, on the beach. What he discovers is the beginning of a nightmare into which he is helplessly drawn.
Biography
film director
Lucile Hadžihalilović
Lucile Hadžihalilović (Morocco) passed her childhood and adolescence in Morocco, before moving to Paris where she studied first art history, then film at La Fémis. In the early 1990s she founded the production company Les cinémas de la zone with Gaspar Noé. In 1996 she produced, wrote, edited and directed Mimi, that screened in Un Certain regard, at Cannes, and won several awards in international festivals. In 2004, she directed the feature film Innocence, that won, among others, the Best New Director Prize at San Sebastián International Film Festival and the Bronze Horse for Best Film at the Stockholm Film Festival. She has also directed two short films Good Boys Use Condoms and Nectar, selected in numerous festivals.
FILMOGRAFIA
La bouche de Jean-Pierre (mm, 1996), Good Boys Use Condoms (cm, 1998), Innocence (2004), Nectar (cm, 2014), Evolution (2015).
Declaration
film director
“Evolution was born from a fascination with both the depths of the ocean – mysterious and evocative realm that fires the imagination and evokes primordial fears and desires – and the hospital, at first glance a more ordinary, even reassuring place, but a place nonetheless where the body is given over to an all-powerful staff and can be subjected to a variety of bizarre practices. The juxtaposition of these two worlds provides the perfect backdrop for the major themes of the film: relationships to childbirth and the journey through puberty, seen here through the dark lens of a fantastic tale.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Lucile Hadžihalilović
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Lucile Hadžihalilović, Alanté Kavaïté, Geoff Cox
fotografia/cinematography
Manu Dacosse
montaggio/film editing
Nassim Gordji-Tehrani
scenografia/production design
Laia Colet
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Max Brebant (Nicolas), Roxane Duran (Stella), Julie-Marie Parmentier (la madre/mother)
produttori/producers
Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon, Jérôme Vidal, Sebastián Álvarez, Geneviève Lemal, John Engel
produzione/production
Les Films du Worso, Noodles Production, Volcano Films, Scope Pictures, Left Field Ventures
Lucile Hadžihalilović
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Lucile Hadžihalilović, Alanté Kavaïté, Geoff Cox
fotografia/cinematography
Manu Dacosse
montaggio/film editing
Nassim Gordji-Tehrani
scenografia/production design
Laia Colet
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Max Brebant (Nicolas), Roxane Duran (Stella), Julie-Marie Parmentier (la madre/mother)
produttori/producers
Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon, Jérôme Vidal, Sebastián Álvarez, Geneviève Lemal, John Engel
produzione/production
Les Films du Worso, Noodles Production, Volcano Films, Scope Pictures, Left Field Ventures
