Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2005 / Ultranova / Belgium, France 2005
Offbeat love story between two lost souls, set in the bleak industrial landscapes of Liège, Belgium.
Lonely Belgians struggle to find human warmth on a bleak semiindustrial landscape in actor-turned-helmer Bouli Lanners’ impressive feature debut Ultranova. Pale, sad-eyed Dimitri (Vincent Lecuyer) lives in a scruffy ’60s housing project, but has a steady job selling furnished starter homes in a development that recalls the soggy, suburban tract-house hell in Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster. His imaginative neighbour Jeanne (Marie du Bled), who works in a local warehouse, explains to her best friend Cathy (Helene De Reymaeker) that he’s an orphan who lost his family at age 12, a rumor Dimitri neither confirms nor denies. Lanners’ fat-free script sneaks up sideways on its big theme, the sense of powerlessness felt by those in dead-end jobs, prey to the forces of fate.
Leslie Felperin
86 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Bouli Lanners
/ Screenplay Bouli Lanners
/ Dir. of Photography Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd
/ Music Jarby McCoy
/ Editor Ewin Ryckaert
/ Producer Jacques-Henri Bronckart
/ Production Versus Productions sprl
/ Cast Vincent Lecuyer, Hélène de Reymaeker, Marie du Bled
/ Contact Playtime, Versus Productions sprl
www: www.ultranova.be
Playtime
5 rue Nicolas Flamel, 75004, Paris
France
Phone: +33 153 103 399
E-mail: [email protected]
Versus Productions sprl
36 Rue des Augustins, 4000, Liege
Belgium
Phone: +32 4 223 18 35
Fax: +32 4 223 21 71
E-mail: [email protected]
Francois Yon
Buyer, Sales Agent
Michaël Abiteboul
Actor
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