Country: USA, France, Philippines
Year: 2022
Duration: 97'
Christine e Felix sono una coppia benestante, con ottimi lavori e una figlia di 8 anni, Roberta. Lui è uno stratega del marketing, lei una stilista: proprio durante una sfilata Christine riceve una telefonata inquietante che le procura una visione inspiegabile e minacciosa. Mesi dopo, minata da una misteriosa malattia, la donna vive tra dolori fisici, attacchi d’ansia e vuoti di memoria. L’incontro con la governante filippina Diana, che sostiene di essere stata chiamata dalla famiglia nonostante nessuno ricordi d’averlo fatto, cambia le cose: curata con i metodi della medicina tradizionale filippina, Christine riprende a star bene e sia Felix che Bob, inizialmente turbati dalla nuova arrivata, finiscono per accettarla. Nessuno sa però che Diana, la quale sostiene d’essere la reincarnazione di una santona guaritrice, è in realtà un’usurpatrice arrivata per portare il caos nella vita di Christine e realizzare un terribile piano di vendetta.
Biography
film director
Lorcan Finnegan
(Dublin, Ireland, 1979) studied graphic design in Dublin before moving into animation and live action filmmaking. His award winning supernatural short Foxes premiered at SXSW in 2011. His first feature Without Name (2016), a psychotropic faery story, premiered at TIFF in 2016. Vivarium is his second feature and was selected at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes in 2019. Nocebo (2022) premiered at Sitges Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Foxes (2011), Without Name (2016), Vivarium (2019), Nocebo (2022).
Declaration
film director
“We started with this idea around placebos and nocebos. We were just quite interested in that area, and we read a book called Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection by Shelley Adler, it’s sort of a medical anthropological book. We just started exploring that idea, and that led us to the Philippines. It was kind of strange process. I’ll try and do it quickly; it’s a long story. But we started with this idea, and then we started thinking about how placebos and nocebos are related to shamanism. In Ireland, we were pagan, pre-Christian Ireland was pagan, we had shamans and these powerful women in society called like, wise women, who were very connected with nature, and were able to cure people.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Lorcan Finnegan. SCREENPLAY: Garret Shanley. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Radek Ladczuk. FILM EDITING: Tony Cranstoun. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Lucy van Lonkhuyzen. COSTUME DESIGN: Leonie Prendergast. SOUND: Kristian Eidnes Andersen, Jacques Pedersen. MUSIC: Jose Antonio C. Buencamino. CAST: Eva Green, Mark Strong, Chai Fonacier, Billie Gadsdon, Cathy Belton. PRODUCERS: Brunella Cocchiglia, Emily Leo. PRODUCTION: Epicmedia Productions, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Lovely Productions, Wild Swim Films, XYZ Films.
CONTACT:
Universal Pictures USA
