"Is that my old T-shirt?" "Yup." "Looks good on you." This sensual summer short film comes from Quebec and is made by a filmmaker named Ariane Louis-Seize and it's another excellent short discovery. Little Waves is a 12-minute film about a young woman discovering some new sexual sensations one evening. On family reunion day in the summer, Amélie feels out of place and lonely as her favorite cousin brings a lover over for the first time. The couple's passion threatens to overwhelm her until Amélie’s fantasies take over, introducing her to some powerful new sensations. Starring Alexandra Sicard as Amélie, with Jules Roy Sicotte, Véronique Gallant, and Martin Desgagné. What makes this short stand out is her use of the glowing light to visualize that power of passion, and how that enhances the power of the storytelling in here. Thanks to Vimeo Staff Picks for the tip. Full description...
- 6/21/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Québécois filmmaker Philippe Lesage quietly made one of the decade’s great narrative debuts with 2015’s “The Demons,” and distributors largely slept on it: A poised, perceptive study of childhood terrors both real and imagined, it made some waves on the festival circuit, but its discomfiting subject matter and stark structural breaks most likely held it back from the exposure it deserved. Undaunted, Lesage has doubled down on that film’s most challenging virtues to extraordinary effect in “Genesis,” a more diffuse but intricately emotive follow-up that extends the autobiographical focus of his debut into a yearning, bruising vision of unpracticed adolescent desire.
Though it’s partially an oblique sequel to “The Demons,” resuming its portrait of Lesage’s young alter ego Felix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier) in the latter stretch of its luxuriant running time, the bulk of “Genesis” — a freestanding work, albeit enhanced by knowledge of its predecessor — is concerned with the respectively thorny,...
Though it’s partially an oblique sequel to “The Demons,” resuming its portrait of Lesage’s young alter ego Felix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier) in the latter stretch of its luxuriant running time, the bulk of “Genesis” — a freestanding work, albeit enhanced by knowledge of its predecessor — is concerned with the respectively thorny,...
- 8/8/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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