Bergamo Film Meeting - Ursula Meier e Jaco Van Dormael sono i protagonisti di Europe, Now!, la sezione dedicata al cinema europeo contemporaneo
La ricognizione nel cinema europeo contemporaneo della 41a edizione di Bergamo Film Meeting sarà incentrata sul lavoro di Ursula Meier (Francia – Svizzera), le cui opere – che si collocano sulla sottile linea di confine tra finzione e documentario – analizzano abilmente la profonda ambivalenza dei legami emotivi,eJaco Van Dormael (Belgio),autore dallostile narrativo sperimentale, non-lineare,…
I felt deeply ashamed [at being too triggered to do a specific special effect shot in a movie] and told him [director Jaco Van Dormael] so. He said, "If this film is everything we want it to be, maybe, if we are very lucky, it will affect two or three people for a little while. The only thing that is certain is that the experience of making it will be with all of us, will become a part of us, forever. So we must try our best to make it a good experience. It's the most important thing." He put his arm around me, ushered me away from set, and found a new way to shoot the scene. As we walked away from the set, something that had been stuck came loose.
So much of coming to terms with hard things from the past seems to be about believing our own accounts, having our memories confirmed by those were there and honoured by those who weren't. Why is it so hard for us to believe our own stories or begin to process them without corroborating witnesses appearing from the shadows of the past, or without people stepping forward with open arms when echoes of those stories present themselves again in the present?
Sarah Polley, "Mad Genius" in Running Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
«Every path is the right path. Everything could’ve been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning», – from «Mr. Nobody», 2009 by Jaco Van Dormael.
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can’t stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad…
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Film Cast:
Ea: Pili Groyne
God: Benoît Poelvoorde
God’s Wife: Yolande Moreau
Martine: Catherine Deneuve
François: François Damiens
Marc: Serge Larivière
Jean-Claude: Didier De Neck
Aurélie: Laura Verlinden
Willy: Romain Gelin
Victor: Marco Lorenzini
The Priest: Johan Heldenbergh
Xenia, l’Allemande: Anna Tenta
Jésus Christ: David Murgia
Kevin: Gaspard Pauwels
Philippe: Bilal Aya
Martine’s Husband: Johan Leysen
Adam: Dominique Abel
Eve: Lola Pauwels
Catherine: Sandrine Laroche
Marc (9 years old): Louis Durant
Willy’s Father: Jean Luc Piraux
Willy’s Mother: Anne-Pascale Clairembourg
Journalist: Alice van Dormael
Journalist: Caroline Lambert
Journalist: Jérôme Varanfrain
The Nurse: Aïssatou Diop
Le nongénaire: Armand Van Dormael
La mère de Georges: Viviane de Muynck
Georges: Pascal Duquenne
Le chef des loubards: Hervé Sogne
L’homme qui vivra le plus longtemps: Kody Kim
Le sans-papiers: Besnik Limani
Andrée: Michèle-Anne De Mey
Médecin Willy: Jean-François Wolff
Le généticien: Norbert Rutili
Médecin hôpital: Luc Schiltz
Passant micro-trottoir: Harry Cleven
Musicien hélicon: Jean-Henri Compère
Maquettiste: Tom Audenaert
Clochard métro: George Nixon
Maman hôpital: Ivone Semedo
Publicité pompes funèbres: Christian Magnani
François (8 ans): Tom Canivet
La cousine de François: Clara Gunzig
La fille des Allemands: Agatha Eleanor Masson
Aurélie enfant: Nora Young
Femme wasserette: Anne-Marie Loop
Jean-Claude enfant: Fabien Zeimes
Ambulancier: Gabriel Boisante
Professeur de hockey: Charlie Degotte
Prostituée: Thérèse Kobankaya
Le fils de François: Diego Dalmans
Petite fille boulangerie: Hannah Gunzig
Willy (6 ans): Eiaël Lefranq Binon
Danseuse main: Nora Alberdi Perez
Le gorille: Kiko Mirales
Sans abri devant l’église: Tanguy De Backer
La fille du coiffeur: Elsa Houben
Pianiste sur la plage: Julien Jakout
Doublure lumière Benoît Poelvoorde: Cyril Perrin
L’automobiliste qui n’a plus que 0 seconde à vivre: Jaco Van Dormael
Kathy: Elisa Echevarria Menendez
Film Crew:
Producer: Jaco Van Dormael
Editor: Hervé de Luze
Screenplay: Thomas Gunzig
Director of Photography: Christophe Beaucarne
Original Music Composer: An Pierlé
Script Supervisor: Elly Verduyckt
Set Decoration: Pascalle Willame
Production Design: Sylvie Olivé
Producer: Olivier Rausin
Casting: Michaël Bier
Casting: Patrick Hella
Costume Design: Caroline Koener
Makeup Artist: Kaatje Van Damme
Special Effects Supervisor: Emilien Lazaron
Assistant Director: Renaud Alcalde
Sound: Michel Schillings
Sound: François Dumont
Producer: Daniel Marquet
Sound: Dominique Warnier
Choreographer: Michèle-Anne De Mey
Movie Reviews:
Reno: > Re-editing the god’s creation.
I was looking forward for this since it was from one of my favourite directors who is a very unique storyteller. This is a fantasy and a black comedy from Belgium that was chosen to represent the country in the last Oscars. This is where the critics overtake the film fanatic to like it more. It is a theme that revolves on what would you do if you get a power to write the laws of the nature. A complicated topic, because loopholes are inevitable, but the writer and director did not care much about that and narrated the tale what they just wanted to tell.
The story centres on an arrogant and abusive father who is also the creator the universe, especially the designer of the lives on the earth and this tale takes place in the Belgian capital, Brussels. When his bored and concerned daughter Ea, runs away from home to re-edit his creation as advised by her brother JC, he goes after her to ensure everything stay as he had planned. In an unexpected confrontation between father and daughter, in the end who is going to be victorious is the rest of the narration. Remember, there is a po...