Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Canada - 2023
Writing: Christine Doyon, Ariane Louis-Seize
Cinematography: Shawn Pavlin
Music: Pierre-Philippe Côté
Produced by: Irène Bessone, Anaëlle Béglet, Line Sander Egede, Jeanne-Marie Poulain
Cast: Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux…
Distributor: Wayna Pitch
France release date: 20/03/24
Legally restricted to persons over 12
Lenght : 90 min // Ratio : 2.39 // Format : dcpLanguage : French // Subtitles : English
Like so many teenagers before her, Sasha has a hard time satisfying her parents' aspirations. In this case, the young vampire refuses to kill for food. Her encounter with a suicidal boy her own age may offer her a way out.
The vampire, like the zombie, has suffered from being overexploited on the silver screen, from having its metaphorical substance drained away. There's no need to point the finger at the Twilight saga - everyone knows it's all its fault. Just when all hope of renewal seems lost forever, along comes an unidentified object with a fabulous title, capable of bringing back the emotions of a first time. The codes of bloodsucking films answer the call, undergoing a skilful aesthetic and narrative twist to embrace a carefully simmered modernity of treatment. From the art direction to the cinematography, from the dialogue to the restrained performance of the young actors, everything concurs in moving hackneyed issues out of their comfort zone with tenderness and grace.