The fantastical films of the Brazil-born director Bernardo Zanotta, which have screened at FID Marseille and Locarno, fuse the familiar and the fantastical.
We’re happy to present a program of mid-length works: In WILD FRUITS (2024), set in the 16th century, Jean Aurand, after a period overseas in the Antarctic, finds refuge as a servant in the house of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, where a series of fantastical events change the lives of these two men forever; in INSIEME INSIEME (2022), a mysterious trio takes captive an innocent tourist in the Italian lake region. Zanotta has also selected LES INTRIGUES DE SYLVIA COUSKI (Adolfo Arrieta, 1975) to screen throughout the month.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 7:30 PM – W/ Q&A
“Young Brazilian director Bernardo Zanotta appears to have made a queer farce, with the right amount of pace and joy, a film that owes much to the sheer delight in manufacturing cinematic images: frame, colours, motifs, bodies. Actors and actresses Lydia Giordano, Gustavo Jahn and Jun Ortega make up a wandering trio in the recesses of cinephile and literary memory.” – Claire Lasolle (33rd FID Marseille, 2022)
The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an exhibition and replace it with a live model.