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Wake Up


France / Canada - 2023
Directing by: François Simard, Anouk Whissell et Yoann-Karl Whissell
Writing: Alberto Marini
Cinematography: Leo Hinstin
Music: Arnau Bataller
Produced by: Laurent Baudens, Julia Caldas, Yann Degay, Adrià Monés, Gaël Nouaille, Maud Petit, Barnaby Wass
Cast: Benny Opoku-Arthur, Kyle Scudder, Jacqueline Moré, Charlotte Stoiber…
International sales: Studio Canal
Add to Calendar Saturday December 09th 2023 09:45 PM Saturday December 09th 2023 23:45:00 Europe/Paris Wake Up A group of activists break into a department store at night, with the aim of denouncing its environmental impact. The only people they meet two security guards, one of whom is a handyman with, shall we say, major anger-management problems. Max Linder Panorama

Legally restricted to persons over 16

Lenght : 90 min // Ratio : 2.35 // Format : dcp
Language : English // Subtitles : French



A group of activists break into a department store at night, with the aim of denouncing its environmental impact. The only people they meet two security guards, one of whom is a handyman with, shall we say, major anger-management problems.

With Turbo Kid and Summer of 1984, the trio of François Simard, Anouk and Yoann-Karl Whissell refined the melancholy of the 1980s, transfiguring it into generous, nostalgic but never backward-looking objects. Alberto Marini cut his teeth with Paco Plaza, Jaume Balaguero and the most committed of the young Spanish guard. The directors and the screenwriter weren't necessarily destined to meet, but their meeting gave birth to this contemporary reworking of the slasher, determined to draw its bloody pin from a moribund game. The recipe is as simple as enucleation: don't let up on the inherent nastiness of the genre, right up to the last second, treat your antagonist, torture and bring back the bittersweet fire.

Guest(s)

Jacqueline Moré, Actress
Alessia-Yoko Fontana, Actress
Léo Hinstin, Director of Photography
Benny O. Arthur, Actor