HORS SATAN (OUTSIDE SATAN) |
In French with English subtitles. Discussion around coffee and pastries by Coffee Works follows. REVIEWS French director Bruno Dumont may not make religious films as such - perhaps it’s truer to say, theological ones. Certainly, he makes films in which the big questions are invoked, but in ways less explicitly religious than obliquely metaphysical. In his sixth feature Outside Satan (Hors Satan), he seems to present a very ambivalent Jesus figure. Jonathan Romney - Screen Daily In the mismatch of its blankly naturalistic style and its unquestionably supernatural events, the film confronts us with the moral openness of our own secularism. Anton Bitel - Eye For Film The question raised by Dumont in Outside Satan isn't, 'Would we recognise our saviour if he came back to Earth?', but rather, 'How would we tell him apart from the devil?' Simon Miraudo - Quickflix |
A miracle reveals an unseen side of a village loner. On the Opal Coast, in the dunes, woods and marshes, lives a strange man who poaches, prays and builds fires. He is a wanderer who came out of nowhere to chase the devil out of the haunted village and put the world "outside Satan." Another spiritual and eerie drama by France's most disturbing filmmaker, Bruno Dumont (Flanders, SFFF 2007.) Shown with Junior by Julia Ducournau. Discussion around coffee and pastries by Coffee Works follows. Saturday, June 23 - 11pm |
