Hélène Cattet
1976 (50 лет)Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema
Steve De Roover
Guillermo del Toro, Pascal Laugier
After researching the Flemish horror cinema in "Forgotten Scares", director Steve De Roover - with the help of co-director Jérôme Vandewattyne (Spit'N'Split) - digs deeper in the follow-up documentary "Surrealistic Nightmares" and shows the beginning of Walloon horror cinema in the '20s (!) and how the genre evolved during the following years. Through unique experiences from the original cast and crew, horror experts and various genre journalists, a broad and in-depth picture is painted about the one-of-a-kind horror legacy from the French side of Belgium, without forgetting the difficult cinema landscape of this small country with two very different languages. "Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema" is illustrated by exclusive behind the scene footage, famous film scenes and loads of original promotional artwork.
Surrealistic Nightmares: An In-depth Look at Walloon Horror Cinema
O is for Orgasm
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Manon Beuchot, Xavier Magot
A man and a woman, credited as "L'homme" and "La femme", respectively, have sex, which is presented in a series of abstract, dimly-lit, close-up shots, such as bubbles, cigarettes, leather, moaning and breathing.
Orgasm
Santos Palace
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Michel Gondoin, Sarah Lablack
Santos Palace is a coffee shop in Belgium. There, a waitress serves a strange client. Their eyes meet, minutes pass and we seem to witness a love story that hasn’t began or may have already started, with its potential jealousies and passions, or which may never happen at all; another type of romance. The feeling of seeing or being seen, the rhythmical editing, the use of cinemascope to make objects and spaces appear as abstract forms, the predominance of detailed shots: these are all obsessions, forms and audiovisual ideas that explode in this surprising film.
Santos Palace
Let the Corpses Tan
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara
With a heavy haul of 250 kilograms of gold bullion, the grizzled criminal mastermind, Rhino, and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, head to a ramshackle retreat somewhere in the Mediterranean to lay low on a scorching day of July. However, the unexpected and rather unwelcome arrival of the bohemian writer, Bernier, his muse, Luce, along with a pair of no-joke gendarmes further complicates things, as the frail allegiances will soon be put to the test.
Let the Corpses Tan
Amer
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud
Ana is confronted with body and desire at three key moments of her life. As a young girl, she brings her dead grandpa back to life. In her puberty, she discovers the power of decay and sexuality. Finally, she wrestles with loss and loneliness when she returns to her parental home, now derelict.
Amer
Chambre jaune
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Jean-Michel Vovk, Sandrine Laroche
The Giallo film reinvented as an experimental S&M-tinged fever dream, told through a combination of color-gelled cinematography and jump-cut photographs, infused with dark sensuality and perverse cruelty. The short films of the directors of Amer are technically rawer than that film, but they show what was to come in terms of themes based on giallo films and an abstract style, from the use of still frames like in Chris Marker's La Jetée to harsh coloured lighting. They are worth seeing by themselves as a refining of their ideas into a fantastic debut feature film.
Yellow Room
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk
A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
The ABCs of Death
Ben Wheatley, Jason Eisener
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Erik Audé
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
The ABCs of Death
Shining Sex
Bertrand Mandico, Hélène Cattet
The imaginations of six visionary directors to create five mesmerizing interlinked worlds - A young man falls in love with a mermaid; a stripper with a glittering sex flees a psychopath; two lovers abandon themselves to sensual pleasure in a dancehall in Brazil...
Shining Sex