Tribute to Denis Villeneuve 2011 / Next Floor / Canada 2008
A film with a lot of feasting and a little dusting down, where the whole banquet is run by a staff of waiters headed by a maître d’. How many dishes can the guests eat on one floor? An original gloomy grotesque, a Dantean allegory, and a parable of the gradual and inevitable collapse of consumer society, which won awards at many international festivals.
A heterogeneous company is feasting at a big table. The waiters can hardly bring new dishes fast enough, while two musicians are doing their best to entertain them. Suddenly the head waiter announces "next floor” and the whole table, including the banqueters, falls one floor down: the feast resumes, the guests are merely a bit gray and dusty. The movie, which can be taken as a gloomy grotesque, a Dantean allegory, or a parable of the gradual and inevitable collapse of consumer society, may recall the films of Jan Švankmajer, Roy Andersson, and Guy Maddin but it betrays its own, completely original poetics. The film won awards at fifty film festivals, including Cannes, and received the prestigious Jutra Award, as well as a Genie.
11 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Denis Villeneuve
/ Screenplay Jacques Davidts
/ Dir. of Photography Nicolas Bolduc
/ Music Warren Slim Williams
/ Editor Sophie Leblond
/ Producer Phoebe Greenberg, Penny Mancuso
/ Production PHI Group
/ Cast Jean Marchand, Mathieu Handfield, Sébastien René
/ Contact Telefilm Canada, PHI Group
www: www.nextfloor-film.com
Telefilm Canada
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Canada
Phone: +1 514 283 636 3
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E-mail: [email protected]
PHI Group
407 Saint-Pierre street, H2Y 2M3, Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Phone: +1 514 844 747 4
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E-mail: [email protected]
Brigitte Hubmann
Film Institution Rep.
Denis Villeneuve
Film Director
Carolle Brabant
Film Institution Rep.
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