A double bill combining Justine Triet’s debut feature film with her acclaimed short Vilaine fille mauvais garçon (Two Ships), tracing emergence of a filmmaker whose career quickly moved to major international acclaim, praised for a cinema of friction, intimacy, and lived emotional disorder.
La Bataille de Solférino (Age of Panic) is set on the day of the 2012 French presidential election, capturing a moment where private life and public spectacle constantly interfere with each other. As Suzanne, a political journalist, moves through polling stations, protests, and media chaos, a chance encounter with her ex-partner and their child gradually pulls her out of her professional frame and into a more immediate emotional disorder.
Triet expands her early interests in unstable relationships, documentary immediacy, and emotional volatility into a fuller, more chaotic form. The film marked the beginning of a trajectory that would later lead to Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une chute), which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and an Academy Award for the script, cementing Triet as one of the defining filmmakers of her generation.
ZomerCinema: AMOUR is realized with the support of Institut français NL and the IF-cinéma programme.
ZomerCinema: AMOUR
First love, obsessive love, forbidden love, unrequited love, true love: love comes in a thousand forms — and thus in a thousand films. With a programme of twelfe French films, we celebrate (and question) love in all its manifestations. Because France is the country of love. Right?
From sultry summer films to works that explore the destructive shadow sides of love. And from classics by established filmmakers such as Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut to films by contemporary directors such as Justine Triet and Vanessa Filho: it is l’été de l’amour.
- Director
- Justine Triet
- RUNNING TIME
- 93’+30′
- Release Year
- 2012
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Subtitles
- English
- Supported by
- Institut français NL
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