EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2023 SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Thursday November 2nd, 2023

We announce the Special Screenings of the 31^st edition of EnergaCAMERIMAGE Film Festival.

ANATOMY OF A FALL

@Les Films de Pierre, Les Films Pelléas

Anatomy of a Fall is a masterful Cannes Palme d’Or-winning thriller in which the search for the answer to the question “Was she the Killer?” feels like a suspenseful intrigue akin to David Fincher’s Gone Girl. It is more than a murder investigation: it is a disturbing journey into the very middle of a tumultuous relationship in a seemingly happy marriage. Starring Sandra Hüller, who is tipped as one of the main favourites in the race for the Academy Awards^®.

Original title: Anatomie d'une chute
Director: Justine Triet
Cinematographer: Simon Beaufils
Produced by: Les Films de Pierre, Les Films Pelléas
Polish distributor: M2 Films
Country and year: France, 2023

BARBIE

Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence.

Director: Greta Gerwig
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Produced by: Heyday Films, LuckyChap Entertainment, Mattel, NBGG Pictures, Warner Bros.
Polish distributor: Warner Bros. Discovery
Country and year: USA, UK, 2023

THE CREATOR

© 2023 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

From director/co-writer Gareth Edwards comes an epic sci-fi action thriller set amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence. Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war…and mankind itself. Joshua and his team of elite operatives journey across enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory, only to discover the world-ending weapon he’s been instructed to destroy is an AI in the form of a young child.

Polish title: Twórca
Director: Gareth Edwards
Cinematographers: Greig Fraser, Oren Soffer
Produced by: 20th Century Studios, Entertainment One, New Regency Prod.
Polish distributor: The Walt Disney Company Polska
Country and year: USA, 2023

THE DEAD DON'T HURT

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

It is a story of star-crossed lovers that takes place on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy is a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant, Holger Olsen. The outbreak of the Civil War separates them when Olsen makes a fateful decision to fight for the Union. This leaves Vivienne to fend for herself in a place controlled by corrupt Mayor Rudolph Schiller.

Director: Viggo Mortensen
Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind
Produced by: Perceval Pictures, Recorded Picture Company, Talipot Studio
Country and year: Mexico, Canada, Denmark, 2023

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY

When Jean-Dominique Bauby was a healthy, strapping, intelligent member of society, he was a qualified author. He was nothing more than a working writer conforming to social success. Through his paralysis and rebirth as an eye – the point of view of what he called the butterfly – he searches his life and life’s paradoxes accomplishing a work that has had a profound effect on anyone who has read it.

Original title: Le Scaphandre at le papillon
Polish title: Motyl i skafander
Director: Julian Schnabel
Cinematographer: Janusz Kamiński
Produced by: Pathé Renn Productions
Polish distributor: Best Film CO
Country and year: France, USA, 2007

DREAM SCENARIO

The Academy Award^® winner Nicolas Cage plays the role of an underappreciated and almost unnoticeable ordinary man whose fate changes radically when every night strangers around the world start dreaming about him. Suddenly – in fact, overnight – Paul Matthews becomes a celebrity of a special category. His teenage daughters are no longer ashamed of him, his ex is talking to him, students find him cool and lucrative advertising contracts are piling up on his desk. Finally, he is SOMEONE. However, his life soon turns from a dream-come-true to a nightmare and from being a fascinating phenomenon Paul becomes a victim of cancel culture.

Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Cinematographer: Benjamin Loeb
Produced by: A24, Square Peg
Polish distributor: Gutek Film
Country and year: USA, 2023

THE EDGE OF THE BLADE

©2023 GAUMONT - FRANCE 2 CINÉMA / Photo : GUY FERRANDIS

Paris 1887. At that time, the duel is the only way to defend one's honor. Clément Lacaze, a charismatic master of arms, gets caught in a spiral of destructive violence. He meets Marie-Rose Astié, an early-day feminist, and decides to teach her the complex art of dueling. They will face provocations and join forces to defend their respective honor.

Original title: Une affaire d'honneur
Director: Vincent Perez
Cinematographer: Lucie Baudinaud
Produced by: Gaumont
Country and year: France, 2023

EILEEN

©Jeong Park

Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works alongside colleagues who have ostracized her. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken. Just when the possibility of a salvational friendship (or maybe more) takes hold and forms a singular glimmer in Eileen’s darkness, her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime that alters all.

Director: William Oldroyd
Cinematographer: Ari Wegner
Produced by: Fifth Season, Film4, Likely Story, Lost Winds Entertainment, Omniscient Productions, Scott Rudin Productions
Polish distributor: United International Pictures
Country and year: USA, 2023

THE HOLDOVERS

Seacia Pavao / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a prestigious American school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them - a damaged, brainy troublemaker - and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

Polish title: Przesilenie zimowe
Director: Alexander Payne
Cinematographer: Eigil Bryld
Produced by: CAA Media Finance, Miramax
Polish dystrybutor: United International Pictures
Country and year: USA, 2023

MAY DECEMBER

Cr. Francois Duhamel / courtesy of Netflix

Elizabeth is preparing for a role in a new Hollywood production: in a film based on the life of Gracie, she is to play a woman whose relationship was a hot topic in the American tabloids. In order to help Elizabeth with her work on the role, Gracie and her husband take her under their roof. What they don’t know, however, is that the actress will go to any lengths to find out their deepest secrets. Over time, the line between working on a role and real life slowly fades away.

Director: Todd Haynes
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Produced by: Gloria Sanchez Productions, Killer Films, MountainA
Polish distributor: M2 Films
Country and year: USA, 2023

THE PEASANTS

The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colourful traditions and a deep-rooted patriarchy. When Jagna finds herself caught between the conflicting desires of the village’s richest farmer, his eldest son and other leading men of the community, her resistance puts her on a tragic collision course with the community around her.

Original title: Chłopi
Directors: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman
Cinematographers: Szymon Kuriata, Radosław Ładczuk, Kamil Polak
Produced by: Breakthru Productions
Polish distributor: Next Film
Country and year: Poland, Serbia, Lithuania, 2023

PRISCILLA

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.

Director: Sofia Coppola
Cinematographer: Philippe Le Sourd
Produced by: American Zoetrope, The Apartment
Polish distributor: Best Film CO
Country and year: USA, Italy, 2023

THE PROMISED LAND

©Henrik Ohsten

In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal; to build a colony in the name of the King. In exchange, he'll receive a desperately desired knighthood for himself. But the sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik de Schinkel, arrogantly believes this land belongs to him.

Original title: Bastarden
Polish title: Bękart
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Cinematographer: Rasmus Videbæk
Produced by: Zentropa Entertainments
Polish distributor: Best Film CO
Country and year: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, 2023

SALTBURN

Academy Award^® winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

Director: Emerald Fennell
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
Produced by: LuckyChap Entertainment, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), MRC Film
Country and year: USA, UK, 2023

YOU SING LOUD, I SING LOUDER

A father takes his estranged daughter on a road trip in an effort to get her out of trouble. Along the way they meet all kinds of strangers, as their strained relationship is put to the test.

Director: Emma Westenberg
Cinematographer: Christopher Ripley
Produced by: Black Magic, Deux Dames Entertainment, Killer Films, Sobini Films
Country and year: USA, 2023