Manager: Patrick Chiha
Artists: Anaïs Demoustier, Tom Mercier, Béatrice Dalle
Year: 2023
Premiere: 3/8/24
★★★
Coincidence led to their release this March Two free adaptations of a novel by Henry James. The first to come with the same name as the book was ‘The Beast in the Forest’. The second one will be at the end of the month: Bertrand Bonello’s ‘Monster’. This is a science fiction version of the theme. Directed by Patric Chiha, the film uses the plot that James created with a very interesting bet around a young man waiting for an event that will change his life. history of disco music and technoIts social and aesthetic representation tells the whole story in a nightclub for 25 years, from 1979 to 2004.
As John awaits the event and persuades May to wait with him, relevant historical events parade and musical habits change, in a strange emotional affair that is neither romantic nor sexual: the election of François Mitterrand as the country’s president in 1981. , the devastation caused by AIDS, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the attack on the Twin Towers on Wall Street in 2001. These familiar events punctuate the story, musical changes carry it forward, and The characters are sometimes too caught up in themselves.They wait for an illuminating event that never comes.