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69th edition. October 18-26, 2024
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Loosely adapted from the novel of the same title by Henry James, it tells the dizzying story of a man and a woman who, for twenty-five years, frequent a nightclub in anticipation of a mysterious event. From 1979 to 2004, from disco music to techno music, the films tells both a love story and the story of an obsession.
An Austrian filmmaker of Hungarian and Lebanese origin, born in Vienna (Austria) in 1975. He moved to Paris at the age of 18 to study fashion design. He then studied film editing at INSAS Film School in Brussels. After shooting short films such as ‘Casa Ugalde’ (2004), ‘Home’ (2006) and ‘Where is the Head of the Prison?’ (2007), and the documentary ‘Les Messieurs’ (2005), in 2009 he directed his first feature film, ‘Domaine’, starring Béatrice Dalle, which premiered at the Mostra di Venezia. It was followed by ‘Boys Like Us’ (2014), and the documentaries ‘Brothers of the Night’ (2016) and ‘If It Were Love’ (2019), which both premiered at the Berlinale. ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ (2023) is his fifth feature film and it was premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.
