On War
I Put a Spell on You: The Films of Bertrand Bonello
April 29 - May 4, 2015
Q&A with Bertrand Bonello on May 1
In Bonello’s nutty, exhilarating symphony about an artistic community in revolt, Mathieu Amalric plays a harried filmmaker who, after an on-set brush with death, retreats to a rural hedonist commune.
Q&A with Bertrand Bonello on May 1
For his return to feature filmmaking after a five-year hiatus, Bonello recruited an all-star lineup—including Mathieu Amalric, Asia Argento, Léa Seydoux, and Michel Piccoli—and made this nutty, exhilarating symphony about an artistic community in revolt. Amalric plays a filmmaker who suffers a career crisis after a shoot gone wrong leaves him holed up in a coffin overnight, and Argento appears as the mysterious leader of the hedonist, revolutionary rural cult he joins as a means of escape. On War, from its treatise-like title down, is a fascinating detour: thus far, the closest that Bonello’s theater of cruelty has come to full-on farce.
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