"Possessor" by Brandon Cronenberg -
The Jokers
The Gérardmer Festival took place online with a jury chaired by Bertrand Bonello.
Processor, a sci-fi film by Brandon Cronenberg, won the Grand Prix for a selection full of surprises.
The very successful French films
La Nurée
and
Teddy
were also distinguished by the press and the jury.
The Gérardmer Festival has reinvented itself for an online edition by the jury chaired by Bertrand Bonello.
Obviously, the atmosphere could not be as warm as in person.
But the twelve films in competition warmed hearts and made fans of fantasy cinema shudder.
Possessor
of Brandon Cronenberrg (yes, David's son) won the grand prize.
Teddy
by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma and
Sleep
by Michael Venus shared the jury prize.
And
The Cloud
by Just Phillipot received that of the Critics and the public
.
An eclectic list of achievements reflecting a selection rich in quality surprises that
20 Minutes
tasted.
So let's come back to the discoveries offered by this 28th edition with fairly marked themes.
Women in action
It has been a while since the heroines of fantastic cinema are no longer "scream queens", young people screaming in front of danger while waiting to be saved.
Gérardmer confirms the trend.
The farmer from
La Nués
, mother of a family, pays with her own money to feed her children and the grasshoppers that she raises.
Nor is the
psychopathic hairstylist
in Jill Gevargizian's
The Stylist
the type to let her life poisoned by clients she is quick to scalp.
As for the intrepid young woman of
Sleep
by Michael Venus, she offers a beautiful role to Sandra Huller (noticed in 2016 in
Toni Erdmann
) who leads the investigation between reality and nightmare to escape horrible dreams.
Without forgetting the granny of
Anything for Jackson
by Justin G. Dyck whose sweet smile hides a very sure taste for black magic.
When technology steps in
What if the terror came from the machines?
Particularly original films have explored this avenue to amaze festival-goers.
In
Possessor
, Grand Prize winner Brandon Cronenberg follows in the footsteps of his father David.
He confuses by presenting a hired killer that a strange technology sends to inhabit the bodies of innocent people so that she can commit her contracts with impunity.
Organic science fiction flirts with horror in this disturbing film.
More current,
Host
by Rob Savage shows the dangers of a zoom meeting when you have the bad idea of having fun summoning spirits.
For once, this horrific thriller takes on its full extent on a computer screen because the spectators really have the impression of sharing the heroes' trials.
Soon in theaters?
We also keep a huge weakness for
Teddy
by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, success "made in France", noticed by the jury, who revisits the myth of the werewolf with an Anthony Bajon, animal at will.
Now let's hope that all these little wonders can quickly leave the small screens to come and terrorize the spectators in finally reopened cinemas ...
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