Tonight on TV: A true French genre film, we’ll take it!

Tonight on TV: A true French genre film, we’ll take it!

What if you watch a really good French genre film? If you like it, go to France 4, who are broadcasting the excellent La Nuée this Thursday evening. An intense work where fantasy and social coexist, which tells how a farmer, a single mother, starts a food locust business to save her farm from bankruptcy. Except that he slowly seems to develop a strange obsession with his insects…

Presented as a selection at Cannes Critics’ Week 2020, La Nuée, which was released in cinemas the following year with a children’s under 12 ban, is a real success. Horrible family drama, crossover between Thriller This critically acclaimed work of rural and auteur cinema (3.8 out of 5 average) is absolutely worth (re)discovering. I promise you won’t come out unscathed…

If La Nuée has a fantastic premise, it is primarily a family-oriented film for its director, Just Philippot, which is a real revelation in the person of actor Soulian Brahim. “I wanted to build the film around a strong and human female character, despite her self-sacrifice and the madness that drives her to sacrifice.” says the film director. “But it’s also a movie about kids who grow up much faster.

“La Nuée is part of something new, at least I get the impression. This new genre from which heavy part would be, for example. I’d say it’s a littleClaude Sauté realizes John Carpenter“”laughs screenwriter Frank Victor.

Prestigious references

Acknowledgments are numerous and prestigious for director Just Philippot and the screenwriting duo of Jérôme Genèvere and Frank Victor who orchestrated this masterstroke. In this cloud for them there is a small peasant, an alien, a shelter, Anais goes to war, but also the shadow of jaws, birds or flies. We have seen worse…

Presented at the 2020 Gérardmer Festival, La Nuée won the Audience Award and the Critics Award. Don’t miss this horror movie as another one that will scare you but make you think.

Tonight on France 4 at 21:05.

Source: Allocine

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