In 26 editions, L'Etrange Festival has become an institution for cinephiles and Parisians.
This does not mean that the organizers are resting on their laurels.
Or prickly and poisonous laurels, as evidenced by its 2021 edition which opens Wednesday and continues until September 19 at the Forum des images, in Paris.
At the option of different selections (international selection, new talents, mondovision, documentaries, nuggets of the strange), the spectators will be able to discover what is done best in the bizarre, the deviant, the bloody, also moving.
From yesterday and today.
Nicolas Cage's craziest movie
In opening, and in world premiere, Fabrice Eboué will present his new film, the
aptly
named
Barbaque
, in which the actor-director plays a butcher who accidentally kills a vegan activist. What to do with the body? Yum ! The festival announces “a guaranteed non-GMO butcher slasher”. The other big piece is the new Nicolas Cage. What, another DTV? No, by the actor's own admission, this is his "craziest film". It must be said that
Prisoners of the Ghostland
is directed by the crazy Japanese director Sono Sion, and sends Nicolas Cage into a supernatural universe to save a kidnapped girl. Do we understand anything else from the trailer, other than that it's gonna be awesome?
Several films presented at Cannes and at other international festivals will also be screened in preview, like
The Innocents
and
Lamb
, and their funny children, respectively with superpowers and a lamb's head.
Artists with well-defined universes, such as the writer Pierre Bordage and the filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, have the right to white cards.
Without forgetting, which is the hallmark of L'Etrange festival, the rediscovery of filmmakers or cinemas, with focus on Atsushi Yamatoya, specialist in Japanese pinku, and Fred Halsted, director of extreme gay porn.
The complete program is on the festival site.
Series
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