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L'empire Peul Du Macina
''Hors Satan'' (''Outside Satan'') is a 2011 French drama film written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It was filmed under the production title ''L'Empire'', which means "The Empire". It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * David Dewaele as le gars * Alexandre Lematre as la fille * Valerie Mestdagh as la mère * Sonia Barthelemy as la mère de la gamine * Juliette Bacquet as la gamine * Christophe Bon as le garde * Dominique Caffier as l'homme au chien * Aurore Broutin as la routarde Reception Rob Nelson of ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' called ''Hors Satan'' "Another 'WTF?' film from Gallic writer-director Bruno Dumont", and went on: "Like Dumont's ''Twentynine Palms (film), Twentynine Palms'' and ''La Vie de Jésus, Life of Jesus'' (give or take the Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival), Cannes Grand Prix-winning ''Humanité, L'Humanité'', ''Outside Satan'' flirts with all-out absurdity, as if managing to keep it at bay will be the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont (; born 14 March 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter. To date, he has directed ten feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both ''L'Humanité'' (1999)(1999) and '' Flandres'' (2006). Dumont's ''Hadewijch'' won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival. Life and career Dumont has a background of Greek and German (Western) philosophy, and of corporate video. His early films show the ugliness of extreme violence and provocative sexual behavior, and are usually classified as art films. Later films bring novel twists to other movie genres like comedy or musicals. Dumont has himself likened his films to visual arts, and he typically uses long takes, close-ups of people's bodies, and story lines involving extreme emotions. Dum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |