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Women in Film Challenge 2023: [104/52] Lost and Delirious, dir. Léa Pool (Canada, 2001)

Like the Lost Boys in Peter Pan, right? Except we’re the Lost Girls, right? Lost and delirious.

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me and who

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Léa Pool

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 8 September 1950  

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: Swiss

Occupation: Director, screenwriter, professor

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ANNE TRISTER (1986) dir. Léa Pool Anne, a Swiss Jewish artist grieving her father, leaves her family and boyfriend and moves to Montreal and forms a friendship with Alix, a child psychiatrist. While creating an installation in an abandoned warehouse, she confronts her past and is increasingly drawn to her new friend. (link in title)

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“It’s good, to be inspired by what you like but... you must find your own words, develop your own ideas about life, about your life.”

Emporte-moi (1999) dir.Léa Pool

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Les cinq diables / The Five Devils Léa Mysius. 2022

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Lost and Delirious 2001, dir. Léa Pool

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"I'm going to say this once and never, ever again. I will never love anyone the way that I love you. Never. You know that, and I know that, and I will die knowing that, ok? But it just can never, ever, forever be. Do you understand? It just can never, ever, forever be"

Lost & Delirious

by Léa Pool.

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Lost and Delirious (2001) Léa Pool

September 17th 2022

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Similar stories of girls in uniform: 4. Overview of lesbian representation in boarding school movies

In the previous articles, we saw multiple innovative movies about the representation of lesbians through boarding school films. This type of movies was one of the first tolerated ways to depict lesbianism on screens because the relationship between two women was not always explicit and the scriptwriters could play on the confusion with a strong admiration for a role model or even with a substitute mother. However, we saw that some of these films were still rather explicit about their subject, but it came with a problematic vision of romantic relationships: a teacher taking advantage of her position to seduce under-age girls.

Over time, it has become a little more common to present lesbian stories in cinema, even if it is still quite rare. While the types of stories have diversified, some rather recent releases continue to pay tribute to the boarding school film genre. The 2006 release Loving Annabelle, directed by Katherine Brooks, re-adapt the entire story of Olivia and Young girls in uniform, but make the story incredibly explicit as the teacher and the student end up sleeping together, and the teacher being condemned by the law for it. Another movie and surely a better one, Lost and Delirious, released in 2001 and directed by Léa Pool, finally presents a vision of love between two students. Answering to the codes of the teen movie genre, it is a bit surprising that it took so many years to have the story focusing on the relationship of two female boarders. But considering the difficulties of the time, like the code Hays that firstly made the Children’s Hour story heterosexual, these movies were still a first step towards the representation of lesbians in cinema.

There was a time when one of the only ways to cross paths with Sapphic stories was through autobiographical inspired literature, written by female authors, and many movies came from their adaptations. We talked about Gestern und heute by Christa Winsloe in 1930, and about Olivia by Dorothy Bussy in 1949, but it is funny to observe that it is more common than what it first appears. Another example is French literary superstar Colette, who expresses all her feelings as a young teenager in Claudine in 1900, including her joy at spending time at her school with "Mademoiselle Aimée", whose name simply means "Miss loved".

If the boarding school movies were important to develop the representation of lesbians in cinema, we can now demand beautiful and ethical stories about Sapphic romances, and ones that don’t even solve with the death of one of the protagonists! We can however still be grateful for their existence at a time where they were essential: for example, Mädchen in uniform, released in 1931, became cult in the LGBT community. We can also feel the need to know and to preserve that history of queerness in cinema with the recent restorations of Olivia and Mädchen in uniforms. It is thanks to that work of preservation of the past that we can build the cinema of tomorrow.

Zoé Richard

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[BERLIN 2023] SÉLECTION

La Berlinale débute ce jeudi et se déroulera jusqu’au dimanche 26 février. Rendez-vous à partir de jeudi sur notre page dédiée pour suivre en direct notre couverture de cette édition ! COMPÉTITION Films datés : 08/03 : ‘Music’ d’Angela Schanelec 12/04 : ‘Suzume’ de Makoto Shinkai 19/04 : ‘Sur l’Adamant’ de Nicolas Philibert 03/05 : ‘Disco Boy’ de Giacomo Abbruzzese 06/09 : ‘Le Ciel Rouge’ de Christian Petzold 06/09 : ‘Le Grand Chariot’ de Phillipe Garrel 11/10 : ‘Mal Viver’ de João Canijo 13/12 : ‘The Survival of Kindness’ de Rolf de Heer 13/12 : ‘Nos vies d’avant’ de Celine Song 14/02/24 : ‘20 000 espèces d’abeilles’ d’Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren Films non datés : ‘Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything’ d’Emily Atef ‘Manodrome’ de John Trengove ‘Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert’ de Margarethe Von Trotta ‘BlackBerry’ de Matt Johnson ‘Till the End of the Night’ de Christoph Hochhäusler ‘The Shadowless Tower’ de Zhang Lu ‘Limbo’ d’Ivan Sen ‘Art College 1994’ de Liu Jian ‘Tótem’ de Lila Avilés ENCOUNTERS Films datés : 11/10 : ‘Viver Mal’ de João Canijo 17/04/24 : ‘White Plastic Sky’ de Tibor Bánóczki et Sarolta Szabó Films non datés : ‘In Water’ de Hong Sang-soo ‘Orlando, ma biographie politique’ de Paul B. Preciado ‘The Adults’ de Dustin Guy Defa ‘The Echo’ de Tatiana Huezo ‘The Klezmer Project’ de Leandro Koch et Paloma Schachmann ‘Here’ de Bas Devos ‘In the Blind Spot’ d’Ayse Polat ‘The Cage Is Looking for a Bird’ de Malinka Mustaeva ‘Mon pire ennemi’ de Mehran Tamadon ‘Family Time’ de Tia Kuovo ‘The Walls of Bergamo’ de Stefano Savona ‘Samsara’ de Lois Patiño ‘Eastern Front’ de Vitaly Mansky et Yevhen Titarenko ‘Absence’ de Wu Lang PANORAMA Films datés : 28/06 : ‘Passages’ d’Ira Sachs 28/06 : ‘La Sirène’ de Spidah Farsi 05/07 : ‘Au cimetière de la pellicule’ de Thierno Souleymane Diallo 16/08 : ‘La Bête dans la jungle’ de Patric Chiha 23/08 : ‘Reality’ de Tina Satter 20/09 : ‘Silver Haze’ de Sacha Polak (DVD) 18/10 : ‘A l’intérieur’ de Vasilis Katsoupis 25/10 : ‘Sisi & I’ de Frauke Finsterwalder 29/11 : ‘Kokomo City’ de D. Smith Films non datés : ‘Perpetrator’ de Jennifer Reeder ‘Adversaire’ de Milad Alami ‘After’ d’Anthony Lapia ‘All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White’ de Babatunde Apalowo ‘Al Murhagoon’ d’Amr Gamal ‘Ambush’ de Chhatrapal Ninawe ‘And, Towards Happy Alleys’ de Sreemoyee Singh ‘El Castillo’ de Martin Benchimoi ‘Do You Love Me?’ de Tonia Noyabrova ‘Drifter’ de Hannes Hirsch ‘The Eternal Memory’ de Maite Alberdi ‘Femme’ de Sam H. Freeman et Ng Choon Pin ‘Green Night’ de Han Shuai ‘Hello Darkness’ de Soda Jerk ‘Heroic’ de David Zonana ‘Joan Baez I Am a Noise’ de Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky et Maeve O’Boyle ‘Matria’ d’Álvaro Gago ‘Property’ de Daniel Bandeira ‘Sages-femmes’ de Léa Fehner ‘Sira’ d’Apolline Traoré ‘Stams’ de Bernhard Braunstein ‘Stille Liv’ de Malene Choi ‘Transfarina’ de Joris Lachaise ‘The Teachers’ de Loungeİlker Çatak ‘Under the Sky of Damascus’ de Heba Khaled, Talal Derki et Ali Wajeeh BERLIN SPECIALS Films datés : 31/03 : ‘Kill Bok-soon’ de Byun Sung-hyun (Netflix) 07/04 : ‘Du tennis à la prison : l’histoire de Boris Becker Pt. 1’ d’Alex Gibney (AppleTV+) 07/06 : ‘Dernière nuit à Milan’ d’Andrea Di Stefano 26/07 : ‘La Main’ de Danny Philippou et Michael Philippou Films non datés : ‘Infinity Pool’ de Brandon Cronenberg ‘Laggiù qualcuno mi ama’ de Mario Martone ‘She Came to Me’ de Rebecca Miller ‘Superpower’ de Sean Penn et Aaron Kaufman ‘Golda’ de Guy Nattiv ‘Kiss the Future’ de Nenad Cicin-Sain ‘Loriots große Trickfilmrevue’ de Peter Geyer et Loriot ‘#Manhole’ de Kazuyoshi Kumakiri ‘Ming On’ de Soi Cheang ‘Seneca’ de Robert Schwentke ‘Sonne und Beton’ de David Wnendt ‘Der vermessene Mensch’ de Lars Kraume A&B

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Movies 2023

JANUARY / ENERO 6: L'Extraordinaire Voyage de Marona - Anca Damian (9/10) 6: Le Voyage du prince - Jean-François Laguionie & Xavier Picard (7/10) 10: Une histoire d'amour et de désir - Leyla Bouzid (9/10) 11: Les amours d'Anaïs - Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet (10/10) 11: Un cuento de circo & a Love Song - Demián Bichir (2/10) 12: Finlandia - Horacio Alcalá (10/10) 14: Ruido - Natalia Beristáin (10/10) 16: La La Land - Damien Chazelle (9/10) 18: Decision to Leave - Park Chan-wook (6/10) 19: Whiplash - Damien Chazelle (10/10) 22: Nos hicieron noche - Antonio Hernández (8/10) 22: Amor rebelde - Alejandro Bernal (8/10) 23: Malvada - J.M. Craviotto (5/10) 30: La panthère des neiges - Marie Amiguet & Vincent Munier (10/10) 30: Babylon - Damien Chazelle (7/10) TOTAL: 15

FEBRUARY / FEBRERO 7: Aftersun - Charlotte Wells (10/10) 8: Knock at the Cabin - M. Night Shyamalan (7/10) 8: Alcarràs - Carla Simón (10/10) 8: Corsage - Marie Kreutzer (7/10) 11: El suplente - Diego Lerman (8/10) 11: Les Magnétiques - Vincent Maël Cardona (8/10) 13: Armageddon Time - James Gray (9/10) 15: The Whale - Darren Aronosfky (10/10) 15: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey - Rhys Frake-Waterfield (6/10) 20: Rimini - Ulrich Seidl (8/10) 23: The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh (10/10) 27: Missing - Nicholas D. Johnson & Will Merrick (10/10) 28: The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg (9/10) 28: Till - Chinonye Chukwu (8/10) 28: Pearl - Ti West (9/10) TOTAL: 15

MARCH / MARZO 1: Huesera - Michelle Garza Cervera (8/10) 1: Women Talking - Sarah Polley (10/10) 4: Manto de gemas - Natalia López (7/10) 4: Close - Lukas Dhont (10/10) 11: Perfume de violetas - Maryse Sistach (10/10) 13: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - Joel Crawford (10/10) 15: Living - Oliver Hermanus (10/10) 16: Tár - Todd Field (10/10) 16: 1976 - Manuela Martelli (9/10) 20: À plein temps - Eric Gravel (10/10) 20: Tár - Todd Field (10/10) 22: Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (10/10) 22: Women Talking - Sarah Polley (10/10) 25: The Piano - Jane Campion (10/10) 29: ¡Que viva México! - Luis Estrada (4/10) TOTAL: 15

APRIL / ABRIL 3: Dos estaciones - Juan Pablo González (9/10) 3: Last Film Show - Pan Nalin (9/10) 7: Klondike - Maryna Er Gorbach (8/10) 7: Estación catorce - Diana Cardozo (9/10) 8: Sobre las nubes - María Aparicio (9/10) 8: Concerned Citizen - Idan Haguel (10/10) 9: Laila in Haifa - Amos Gitai (6/10) 11: EO - Jerzy Skolimowski (8/10) 11: Asia - Ruthy Pribar (9/10) 12: Last Film Show - Pan Nalin (10/10) 12: Holy Spider - Ali Abbasi (10/10) 13: Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Östlund (10/10) 13: Dalva - Emmanuelle Nicot (10/10) 14: Godland - Hlynur Pálmason (9/10) 15: Vicenta B. - Carlos Lechuga (10/10) 15: Sick of Myself - Kristoffer Borgli (10/10) 15: La double vie de Véronique - Krzysztof Kieślowski (8/10) 20: Sparta - Ulrich Seidl (10/10) 23: Feature Film About Life - Dovilė Šarutytė (10/10) 26: Infinity Pool - Brandon Cronenberg (5/10) 26: Dead Bride - Francesco Picone (3/10) TOTAL: 21

MAY / MAYO 1: Evil Dead Rise - Lee Cronin (6/10) 3: La Usurpadora: The Musical - Santiago Limón (5/10) 4: Jirón - Christian Cueva (10/10) 4: Trigal - Anabel Caso (8/10) 9: Les cinq diables - Léa Mysius (10/10) 13: Huesera - Michelle Garza Cervera (9/10) 16: Brujería - Christopher Murray (8/10) 16: Firebird - Peeter Rebane (10/10) 17: Beau Is Afraid - Ari Aster (4/10) 17: Eami - Paz Encina (7/10) 17: The Innocents - Eskil Vogt (10/10)

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Léa Seydoux Soars in a Romantic Sci-Fi Epic

The Beast is sort of a slow-twisting knife to the facet of our existence, its level sharpened with care by writer-director Bertrand Bonello and guided with the utmost precision in order to not puncture any important organs — we're alive, however in simple ache. Certainly, arriving at a time when humanity is at its most anxious, emotionally exhausted, and existentially annoyed, the movie affords zero reprieve because it offers with grand questions of affection, demise, and loneliness. But, on the danger of untimely exclamation, it stands as some of the rewarding films you may see this yr. Loosely tailored from the 1903 Henry James novella, The Beast within the Jungle, The Beaststars Léa Seydoux as Gabrielle, a girl who decides to endure an emotional purification process that can eradicate her potential to expertise any and all robust emotions. It is the yr 2044, and it has since been deemed that people' capability for emotions has been a deterrent to progress, so people largely take part on this process with the intention to safe extra substantial jobs in society. After we first meet Gabrielle, her sole duty is to periodically test the temperature of an enormous piece of equipment, which is as monotonous a job as it could actually get. The emotional purification process is achieved on the DNA stage, so Gabrielle finds herself hooked as much as a Matrix-looking machine. Right here, she is thrust again to 2 essential time intervals: La Belle Époque in 1910 Paris, and the trendy mansions of 2014 Los Angeles. In each pasts and the current, we comply with the differing relationships Gabrielle kinds with Louis (George MacKay). Although their dynamics could also be distinct in every timeline, the unifying high quality is in how love and ache are inextricable from one another.

A Conceptual Jungle That Requires Endurance

The Beast (2024) 4/5 Launch Date February 7, 2024 Director Bertrand Bonello Solid Lea Seydoux , George MacKay , Guslagie Malanda , Dasha Nekrasova , Martin Scali , Elina Löwensohn , Marta Hoskins , Julia Faure Runtime 146 Minutes Writers Bertrand Bonello , Guillaume Breaud , Benjamin Charbit ProfessionalsA career-best efficiency from Seydoux and an important flip from MacKay Thematically wealthy and thought-provoking Performs curiously with its supply materials Fascinating use of sci-fi and interval tropes An absence of exposition might be off-putting for much less affected person viewers Destiny and doom are two pillars of James' authentic novella, which follows the reunion and relationship between John Marcher and Might Bartram. Psychological in nature, the story focuses on John's anxiousness over the assumption that an particularly tragic occasion will occur to him sooner or later, which he likens to a "beast within the jungle" patiently ready to strike. After all, the ethical of the story is that John is so preoccupied with worrying concerning the future that he fails to understand the life that he has within the current — the true "beast" is the all-too-late realization that he has wasted his time fretting over nothing. Bonello efficiently adapts these core themes in The Beast, but in addition expands the scope by, on one hand, infusing acquainted science fiction tropes and components of interval drama, and, on the opposite, amping up the romance between Gabrielle and Louis. The result's a movie that feels sensual, lush, and intimate, however is successfully laced with a crippling foreboding. La Belle Époque is a maximalist's dream, unabashed in its extravagance, and but one thing darkish and sinister creeps beneath (not in contrast to thick, pooling blood). Against this, 2044 is definitively beige in each sense of the phrase. And 2014, which feels closest to us as viewers, straddles the 2: a mausoleum of the previous that gestures in direction of a deranged future. Due to the conceptual density, The Beast is much from a stroll within the park, notably within the first 45 minutes of its two-and-a-half-hour runtime, as we're unmoored in each the previous and future, clamoring for expository clues. Nevertheless, Bonello milks every minute, and no time is wasted as he units the stage. Every timeline and setting Gabrielle finds herself in — whether or not it is a Parisian doll manufacturing unit, a Los Angeles nightclub, or a future the place every little thing seems to be and feels the identical — is handled with equal significance, as if the reply to each existential query can and might be discovered there. The worth of admission, right here, is endurance, and people who are keen to pay will profit probably the most.

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Léa Seydoux's Finest Efficiency to Date

With Seydoux and MacKay, Bonello could not have solid higher actors. The pair is magnetic on-screen, every drawing the opposite (and, because of this, us) into their orbit. Of the 2, MacKay is afforded probably the most noticeable variations in his character: in 1910, Louis is an English aristocrat who charms an already-married Gabrielle; in 2014, he's an American incel-type who stalks her; and in 2044, he is a mere stranger Gabrielle retains operating into and can not help however really feel a connection. MacKay is superb at exposing probably the most delicate nerves of every of those characters; you may't assist however wish to fall in love and run to your life on the similar time.

Associated 5 Sci-Fi Movies That Made 1982 a Actually Particular 12 months for the Style 1982 cemented itself as the most effective years of all time for the sci-fi style, with the releases of Blade Runner, E.T., and extra heavy hitters. With that mentioned, The Beast's largest triumph is in the end Seydoux's efficiency. Like MacKay, she takes on the duty of enjoying three completely different variations of Gabrielle throughout time and area, however arguably has the harder activity of navigating her subtleties, imbuing every with heartfelt nuance and tragic grace. All through her on-screen profession, particularly inside European arthouse cinema of the final decade, Seydoux has constantly established herself as some of the soulful performers of her era. Her signature unhappy eyes and smooth vocal tenor are used to nice impact right here, anchoring us into every little thing Gabrielle is feeling. That is an attention-grabbing dichotomy when you think about that Gabrielle spends the whole thing of The Beast making an attempt to not really feel something. Actually, it is this inevitability of feeling on her half that will get to the foundation of Bonello's movie: alas, even probably the most hole cup possesses the inherent potential to be stuffed — and, by extension, spill over. What's the level of life, love, and longing, then, appears to be the query that hovers over the ultimate moments of the movie and past. Desirous about the place we're on this planet proper now, the reply — or, maybe extra accurately, the dearth thereof — is sufficient to make you wish to scream. From Vertigo Releasing, The Beast opens in choose theaters April 19. Read the full article

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Cine: Emporte-Moi (1999)

Hanna (Karine Vanasse) proviene de una familia religiosamente mixta: su padre (Miki Manojlović) es un sobreviviente polaco del Holocausto que intenta generar orgullo por sus raíces judías y se dedica a escribir poesía mientras que su madre (Pascale Bussières), es una mujer católica que trabaja en un taller de costura. No es azaroso pensar por qué "Set Me Free" ("Libérame") es el título escogido para el mercado anglosajón: padre, madre e hija (también hay un hermano mayor, Paul, interpretado por Alexandre Mérineau) son prisioneros de una vida agobiante.

El contexto dirá que estamos en la Montreal (ciudad francocanadiense) de 1963. Hanna, que acaba de conocer la experiencia de la menstruación, busca desesperadamente una figura femenina con la que pueda sentirse identificada, sea su profesora (Nancy Huston) o Anna Karina, protagonista de la película "Vivre sa vie", de Jean-Luc Godard, que va a ver en numerosas ocasiones. En una fiesta conoce a Laura (Charlotte Christeler), una chica con la que congenia muy bien y que parece tener igual pasión por ella como por Paul. La endeble sensación de seguridad se verá resquebrajada cuando la depresión de su madre sirva como detonante de una serie de sucesos que conmueve la ya débil dinámica familiar.

La suiza Léa Pool (también directora de "Lost and Delirious", reseñada aquí) vuelca mucho de su experiencia personal como judía y lesbiana en una historia que sorprende por la mixtura entre ternura y brutalidad que, sin embargo, no desentona, concediéndonos un filme agridulce y bello.

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🏖️Summer Time in the Parafolks’ Wardrobe!

4. August

Hello everyone, Léa here reporting live from the Paralives studio! Here in Montréal, we had a few very intense heat waves so it was very fitting to add summer-oriented content to the game.

🌊 Pools are not ready yet, but enjoy this little patio set up with our new swimsuit and bikini!

Here is a closer look and some different combinations

In Québec, summer is also the moving season! Everyone is busy packing and carrying boxes in comfy clothes. It was time to add the ultimate moving day apparel: the Jeans Overalls!

Just like Maggie’s skirt overalls, you can combine them with different tops to create various looks. Maybe we should add a variation with some paint stains all over, what do you think?

What also happens during Summer? Festivals of course! In that mindset, Sonia created our new collection of eyeshadows. Get ready to party all night long!

All those eyeshadows above can be combined to help you create customizable and unique looks. Change each layer's color and opacity to build your dream look!

Here are a few examples of what you will be able to create, many combinations are possible for endless possibilities!

And that’s all for today! I hope you got many ideas for your Parafolks’ summer looks! Take care and stay hydrated! 💦

Léa ૮⍝• ᴥ •⍝ゝ Edit - September 21, 2023: This post is now public, feel free to share it!