Franck is lost in space. Literally (he’s an astronaut — or he was). Which leaves his sister Elsa (Megan Northam) struggling with grief and susceptible to making a deal when contacted by alien voices offering to trade her brother for a few fresh human bodies. But is this all in her head? That’s the question hanging over Jérémy Clapin’s second feature, his first live action film after the inventive animation I Lost My Body. With its arresting compositions, eerie evocation of a provincial hinterland touched with the fantastic and an elegiac but volatile atmosphere this is reminiscent of Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin. Clapin is interested in exploring loss and disaffection, and the sci-fi trappings allow him to invest introspection with a cosmic existentialism.
Captioned Screening
The Wednesday, Nov 13 afternoon screening is part of a new series on Wednesday afternoons aimed at those who are hard of hearing, screening new releases with subtitles or (when available) open captions.
A strange, poetic, and endearingly surreal meditation on the counterintuitive ways in which we react when confronted with loss.
Damon Wise, Deadline Hollywood
A moving elegy on the power of grief, and the lengths to which we are driven in order to feel whole.
Nikki Baughan, Screen International
Jérémy Clapin
Megan Northam, Sam Louwyck, Catherine Salée
France
2024
In French with English subtitles
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Credits
Screenwriter
Jérémy Clapin
Cinematography
Robrecht Heyvaert
Editor
Jean-Christophe Bouzy
Original Music
Dan Levy
Production Design
Marion Burger
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