''Thunder'' (french: Foudre) is a 2022 Swiss
drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
film written and directed by Carmen Jaquier.
[Muriel Del Don]
"Carmen Jaquier’s Foudre enters into post-production"
''Cineuropa'', 27 July 2021. The film stars Lilith Grasmug as Elisabeth, a young woman who has spent several years in a convent school preparing to take vocation as a
nun
A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.''The Oxford English Dictionary'', vol. X, page 599. The term is o ...
, but finds that her desires have changed when she returns home following the death of her older sister.
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Jaquier has described the film as inspired by the discovery of old notebooks belonging to her great-grandmother, which revealed details about her daily life and her relationship to God.][
The film premiered in the ]Platform Prize The Platform Prize is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to films of "high artistic merit that also demonstrate a strong directorial vision."[2022 Toronto International Film Festival
The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the 47th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, is scheduled to be held from September 8 to 18, 2022.
Festival organizers have indicated that the 2022 festival will be staged primar ...]
on 10 September 2022, and will be screened in the New Directors lineup at the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival
The 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival took place from 16 to 24 September 2022 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. The awards were announced on 24 September 2022, with '' The Kings of the World'' winning the Golden Shell.
Backgroun ...
.[John Hopewell]
"San Sebastian New Directors Section to Feature Carmen Jaquier, Laura Baumeister, Dinara Drukarova"
''Variety
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'', 28 July 2022.
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2022 films
2022 drama films
Swiss drama films
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2020s French-language films
French-language Swiss films
Films set in 1900