UN FRANÇAIS (FRENCH BLOOD) |
Rendez-vous with Le Professeur Kevin Elstob, around coffee and pastries (by Coffee Works), after the screening. In French with English subtitles. REVIEWS There will be "French Blood" — and lots of it — in the opening sections of writer-director Diastème’s gritty and intermittently ultraviolent portrait of a Gallic skinhead. Jordan Mintzer - Hollywood Reporter Like "12 Years a Slave," "French Blood" will enter a canon of films to shine light on a diabolical element of a nation's past - and, sadly in this case, its present. Matt Anderson - Cine Vue There is nothing pretty about "French Blood," the second feature film by the French writer-director Diastème (...) Though compared incessantly to "American History X," "French Blood" aims for a different aesthetic, far more realist in its approach, perhaps as a consequence of the writer-director's previous work as a journalist. Tina Poglajen - IndieWire A courageous and accomplished film that addresses a topic mostly ignored by French cinema. Simon Riaux - Ecran Large |
An "America History X" type thriller, exploring far right activists in France. It’s the story of a Frenchman, born in 1965, on the outskirts of Paris. It's the story of a skinhead, who hates Arabs, Jews, blacks, communists, and gays. With his buddies, Braguette, Grand-Guy, and Marvin, he beats up Arabs and sticks up posters of far right political parties. Until the moment when he suddenly feels, in spite of himself, all this hatred desert him. It's the story of a son of a bitch who attempts to become someone decent. Shown with In the Soldier's Head by Christine Rebet Saturday, June 18 - Showtime TBA |
