Archive of films Next Floor / Next Floor
Canada
2008, 11 min
Section:
Tribute to Denis Villeneuve
Year: 2011
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.
Synopsis
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.
Contacts
Telefilm Canada
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About the film
Color, 35 mm
Section: | Tribute to Denis Villeneuve |
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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 |
Guests
Brigitte Hubmann
Film Institution Rep.
Denis Villeneuve
Film Director
Carolle Brabant
Film Institution Rep.