Until it Breaks
Synopsis:
Paris-based director Mélanie Tourneur’s eerie hand-drawn animation accompanies Victoria+Jean’s sultry track Until it Breaks.
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A zapping channel. A mix of interviews with philosophers, researchers, patients, lovers and ordinary citizens. Each in his or her own way, they evoke their perception of life.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
- Non-narrative
- Making of
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He tries to talk to her again. As usual, she seems very distant. But how can that be? She’s only at the other end of the table.
- Drama
- Romance
- Experimental
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Being a poetic experience, the film unfolds a plant fresco at the edge of intimacy and fantasy, where the eye, like the one spread by the butterfly, wanders from specimen to specimen. In the garden of a dream, the living metamorphoses and beings unveil.
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracization.
- Drama
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Pedro, a young, athletic man, share his life with his ironing board. Faithful, Pedro sleeps on his ironing board, carefully sets it when he wants to eat, uses it to iron his favorite jogging outfit, and even takes it under his arm when he goes jogging. In the village, everyone admires him and follow his example. One night, however, everything is turned upside down.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Making references to comics, cartoons, films or video games, Les Kassos reveals the dark and absurd sides to their cult figures.
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Looking at an X-ray image a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumor-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man’s head. Nested in his body, he is waiting to be born…
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Richie, a joyful drinker, talks about the 2014 new year’s eve he spent at the hospital. Between piping malfunctions and other scatophilic problems, he evokes his love for his daughter, his relationship to death and his desire for descent.
- Drama
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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In a wild an inhabited desert, a team of rangers is in charge of rescuing people who got lost there. One of them, Jean-Mi, is going to draw apart from the group and meet an unexpected character.
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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An apartment building full of self centered inhabitants. Utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife. Widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol… While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard to solve triangle asking for absurd and irrational solutions. The consequences can easily become permanent, sometimes maybe too permanent. The film is a loose adaptation of a well-known biblical story while transforming it into an contemporary ironic narrative about how the world sometimes works.
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Drama
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Marion would like to go sledding on « the » hill of her childhood, she brings her brother in the mountain in order to find it once more.
- Drama
- Coming-of-Age
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Oscar, 17, spends his summer with his mother and Marianne, who is thirty years older than him. This summer, an ardent desire emerges at Oscar for Marianne.
- Drama
- Romance