05 October 2020
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Here is back the most important film festival in Belgium. 110 feature films, a plethora of guests, and numerous encounters: who says better?
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With the greatest respect for health prerogatives, Ghent is preparing to receive the best of the 7th art, for the 47th time. The world temple of film music will this year give pride of place to two regulars: the Franco-Lebanese Gabriel Yared and the essential Alexander Desplat. At the level of the guests, the beautiful people: Viggo Mortensen, Maïwenn, Jérémie Renier, singer Daan (now also an actor) and many others … But it is of course the films that are the most anticipated. Focus.
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Member of the jury, the young American prodigy Benh Zeitlin will not come alone: he brings his new film in his luggage. After the extraordinary “Beasts of the Southern Wild” which received the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2012, here is “Wendy”, a fable in the form of a tribute to Peter Pan. Grandiose landscapes, magical world and power of childhood: here we stay in the director’s favorite themes.
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Maywenn will also be present, with its “ADN”, who looks back on his Algerian origins. The director likes to flirt with reality, as has already been seen in “Pardon-moi” or “Le bal des actrices”. Will she regain the grace allied to the power she had deployed in “Polisse” or “Mon roi”? In the credits, in addition to Maïwenn, we will find Louis Garrel and Fanny Ardant.
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Aragorn will be fine in Ghent, but without his sword. Viggo Mortensen Nor will he take on the breastplate of the role that made him world famous almost 20 years ago. It is with his new director’s cap that he will present “Falling”, the story of a declining and reactionary old man, “resettled” by his children in a new place of life.
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Love story against the backdrop of the Belgian coast
In the Belgian department, we expect a lot from the new film by Stephan Streker (“Noces”), already noticed in Angoulême. This time again, the director is inspired by a news item (the Wesphael affair), to tell us a love story against the backdrop of the Belgian coast. A large part of the team, which includes many Flemish actors like Peter Van Den Begin or Sam Louwyck, will be present.
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Thomas Vinterberg’s new film “Drunk” was a very serious candidate for the Palme d’Or, if Cannes had not been “prevented” this year.
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A film which should mark the spirits in Ghent is signed by a enfant terrible of cinema, the Dane who brought us “Festen”: Thomas Vinterberg. He abandons his underwater ambitions (he had oddly signed the disaster film “Kursk”) to reconnect with the vein of “The hunt”. In “Drunk”, four teachers carry out an experiment: it appears that with a low dose of alcohol in the blood, humans are at their best. The question will therefore be to manage to keep the dose, while surfing the daily. The film was a very strong contender for the Palme d’Or, if Cannes had not been “prevented” this year.
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It will of course also be a question in Ghent of short films, classics (with a large tribute to German cinema yesterday and today), and documentaries. Let’s pin the very modern “Billie”, who offers us a Billie Holiday as we have never seen her: in constant struggle to reach the status of artist, while being an African-American in the 40s and 50s. “I am Greta”, which will return to the center of the debate both the ecological emergency and the means implemented to publicize this emergency.
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