Country: France
Year: 2022
Duration: 80'
A teenager has a special power: she can bring us into her dreams – but also her nightmares. Locked in her room, her only relationship to the outside world is virtual. She begins to go back and forth between dreams and reality, guided by a disturbing and mysterious youtuber, Patricia Coma.
Biography
film director
Bertrand Bonello
Bertrand Bonello (Nice, France, 1968), French director, screenwriter and composer, debuted in feature films in 1998 with Quelque chose d’organique, presented in the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival. His next film, Le pornographe, with Jean-Pierre Léaud portraying a pornography director, participated at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI Award. He also presented his next films at Cannes: Tiresia (2003), in competition; the short Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (2005); De la guerre (2008), at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs; L’Apollonide (2011), in competition, as was Saint Laurent (2014). In 2016 he realized the feature film Nocturama and the short Sarah Winchester, Opéra fantôm, which was selected at the TFF. In 2019 his feature Zombi Child premiered in Cannes, at Directors' Fortnight. Coma (2022) premiered at Berlinale.
FILMOGRAFIA
Qui je suis (cm, 1996), Quelque chose d’organique (1998), Le pornographe (2001), The Adventures of James and David (cm, 2002), Tiresia (2003), Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (cm, 2005), My New Picture (cm, 2006), De la guerre (2008), Where the Boys Are (cm, 2010), L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011), Ingrid Caven, musique et voix (doc., 2012), Saint Laurent (2014), Sarah Winchester, Opéra fantôme (cm, 2016), Nocturama (2016), Zombi Child (2019), Coma (2022).
Declaration
film director
“How does one talk to an 18-year-old in this day and age? The film doesn’t answer this question, of course, but it does offer up some narratives to this effect. I wanted to address serious, important things, but do so in an often-playful way, sometimes even humorously and lightheartedly, even though the film is permeated with the somberness of our current time period. Certain devices in the film, such as the animation or Patricia Coma’s channel, allowed me to address things head-on, alternating between comedy, irony, and much more frightening things. The Patricia Coma character ends up being a guide for the girl and for the film as a whole. She leads us to the film’s most profound subject: the fact that today more than ever, being free means confronting one’s deepest fears.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, MUSIC: Bertrand Bonello. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Antoine Parouty. FILM EDITING: Gabrielle Stemmer. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Gaston Portejoie, Daphné Yvon, Anna Bonello. SOUND: Romain Cadilhac, Clément Laforce, Jean-Pierre Laforce. CAST: Louise Labeque, Julia Faure. VOICES: Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Gaspard Ulliel, Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Lacoste. PRODUCERS: Justin Taurand, Bertrand Bonello. PRODUCTION: Les films du Bélier, My New picture.
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