Anthony Bajon in "Teddy" by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma -

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  • Festival goers had their fill of strong emotions this weekend.

  • French, Koreans and Americans have played the horror and SF cinema card.

  • Three works have chosen genre cinema to evoke the state of the world.

This first weekend of the Deauville American Film Festival was placed under the sign of genre cinema.

Horror and science fiction have prevailed.

Three films from the Cannes Festival selection, which Deauville is hosting this year, shook viewers for very different reasons: 

Teddy

by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma,

Peninsula

by Yeon Sang Ho and

Last Words

by Jonathan Nossiter made people think about the world. current through suspenseful entertainment.

A werewolf from home

Our big crush goes to

Teddy

in which Anthony Bajon is transformed after being bitten by a wolf.

“We wanted to revisit a classic fantasy and place it in a typical French village” explain the Boukherma brothers to whom we already owed the excellent

Willy 1er

(2016).

This young man a bit lost, who earns his living by doing massages in a beauty salon, turns into a hairy beast for this moving story that is both the

Werewolf of London

(1981) and the cinema of Bruno Dumont .

"How could I have resisted a role like this?"

says Anthony Bajon to

20 Minutes

.

It is undoubtedly a unique opportunity in my career!

With his shaven head and disarming gaze, he becomes extremely disturbing as he transforms.

Teddy will

attack theaters on January 13th.

Seeing a movie like #Peninsula on the big screen of @DeauvilleUS is a real treat!

Korean Zombies are good!

We really take in the eyes and ears.

@ArpSelection @LaCastafiore @Festival_Cannes pic.twitter.com/An1cqYSsmj

- Vié Caroline (@Caroklouk) September 5, 2020

Korean zombies are always hungry

It was one of the festival's most anticipated films: 

Peninsula

, a sequel to Korean zombie film

Last Train to Busan

(2016) made festival-goers tremble with its ever-faster and hungry undead.

Isolated survivors barricaded themselves in the world's isolated Korean peninsula as a group of mercenaries disembark from Hong Kong in the hope of recovering a shipment of banknotes.

The director continues to send clusters of undead to slaughter humans, this time increasing car chases.

What to wonder if after the train and the cars, he plans a third opus by plane!

Perfectly efficient with its dynamic soundtrack,

Peninsula will

invade cinemas on October 21, 2020.

Jonathan Nossiter pays homage to cinema with #lastwords, a generous apocalyptic film in which he even quotes #MontyPython!

@DeauvilleUS @Festival_Cannes @ jour2fete pic.twitter.com/hrSg3ZqX3M

- Vié Caroline (@Caroklouk) September 6, 2020

Apocalypse now

Much less gory,

Last Words

explains how the survivors of an ecological disaster that devastated the earth are reinventing cinema in an attempt to leave an ultimate trace of their existence.

If the film, presented in competition, lacks rhythm, it is teeming with generous ideas.

Like

Teddy

and

Peninsula

, he speaks above all of the human species confronted with its fragility.

Charlotte Rampling, Nick Nolte and Stellan Skarsgård are particularly moving in this fable which has a good chance of seducing the jury with its inventiveness.

Last Words,

which will be released on October 21, proves that American cinema is not just about blockbusters.

It feels good.

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