Review: Bowling Saturne – Cineuropa

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entrevista: Patricia Mazuy
ficha de la película]the cult French director’s sixth function movie Patricia Mazuy Chosen for the seventy fifth Worldwide Competitors Locarno Film FestivalUnderneath Mazuy’s elegant but scientific, aesthetic gaze, he’s certain to depart audiences with nothing however chilly, because of a heavy dose of violence that rapidly turns into visible poetry.

Though it began as Agnes Vardaassistant editor (1985s) rascal), Patricia Mazuy succeeded in artistically popping out of the field, by means of her function movie debut. thick skinned (1989). Amongst his best-known works King’s Daughtersperformed isabelle huppert, Women and Horses [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (2018) takes the theme of violence as a response to a type of social frenzy that has develop into private and intimate. His newest effort is a crude and brutal story the place the brutal instincts of a society in disaster explode in a cathartic closing ceremony.

Guillaume, upon the loss of life of his father (Arieh Worthalter), a police officer with a rare profession inherits a futuristic-style underground bowling alley. Whereas his father cares very a lot about this place as each a supply of earnings and a non-public shelter the place he’ll preserve his secrets and techniques, Guillaume has no intention of taking good care of it and entrusts its administration to his half-brother Armand. -blowing Achille Reggiani), a foreigner who works as a short lived bouncer. What the 2 brothers do not know is that the bowling alley is dwelling to a legacy of violence and extremism, anger and frustration. What’s hidden within the bowels of this institution, which has turned from an actual place to a pure dystopia? What occurs while you cross the road between fantasy and the conclusion of the latter?

Saturn Bowling a movie dominated by violent and authoritarian masculinity, or moderately hegemonic males; Seemingly smug males who cover their frustrations and insecurities, loneliness and incapacity to speak with others, to not point out speaking with themselves. The one exception to this rule is the movie’s protagonist, Guillaume, a co-victim of a system that rejects him and sees him marginalized by dominant males whose contempt arouses blind anger. The area reserved for ladies right here could be very restricted, and even nonexistent; moderately, they’re seen as objects whose sole function is to fulfill males’s urges: hardened seducers moderately than males with intelligence and feelings. How do you image this violence? How do you reintroduce these males’s pent-up frustration and aggression into photographs? Patricia Mazuy chooses to handle these points immediately, with out hiding behind false modesty, with out attacking (gender) stereotypes immediately, and typically clinically.

Saturn Bowling A movie noir deeply rooted in our fashionable society, fueled by the perversions and contradictions of a patriarchy that sees itself as invincible. “Ladies do not drink” and “I believed he was a faggot” are simply two of the feedback made by the mysterious group of hunters (an abusive masculinity metaphor self-sustained by the “pack”). ladies or “misfits” males who betray the homosocial contract. Underneath Mazuy’s burning and eager gaze, people develop into an endangered species, a bunch that disintegrates from a single block into numerous parallel realities which might be unattainable to regulate. Saturn bowling a dystopian actuality the place masculine energy turns into a poison, triggering a degree of animality that our society nonetheless says it could actually management.

Saturn Bowling It’s produced by a French firm. Old Nihilo co-production with Belgium Fleuve MoviesBought by and offered worldwide. Totem Movies.