23/01/2013 - Two strong cinema propositions on screen this week: David Lambert’s first movie Hors les murs, and the third opus from the Brosens & Woodworth duo, The Fifth Season

Two Belgian "films d'auteur" highly acclaimed at festivals are coming out this week in Belgium. Hors les murs [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: David Lambert
film profile] (photo), David Lambert’s first feature film, won the "Grand Rail d’Or" prize in Cannes, where it was selected in the Semaine de la critique. With this surprisingly mature first movie, David Lambert tells a passionate love story, moving and fraught, the tale of Paulo and Ilir, whom life throws together just as violently as it tears them apart. While Lambert tells us about the dawn of desire, transformed very quickly (too quickly?) into a sentimental relationship, he also explores its aftermath, or how to live love after passion, how to live it differently. Hors les murs also features Matila Malliarakis and Guillaume Gouix (both on the bill of They Came Back), a couple who at first glance seem improbable, but who rapidly find their tempo in the midst of irritation, fusion and complicity. A first feature film mainly carried by Frakas Production (which will soon release Post-Partum by Delphine Noels, and is currently shooting Moroccan Gigolo’s by Ismaël Saïdi), co-produced with Les Productions Balthazar (France) and Boreal Films (Canada), the movie received backing from the CCA and Wallimage. Hors les murs is the first film presented by a newcomer on the distribution market, Tarantula (the recent producer of Mobile Home [+see also:
trailer
film profile]).

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The second Belgian release of the week is The Fifth Season [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jessica Woodworth
film profile] by Brosens and Woodworth, winner of the Cineuropa Prize at the last Les Arcs European Film Festival. The film is a disquieting tale, a plea for the environment, a literally apocalyptic and mystical reflexion, which asks: what would happen if spring never came, if nature rebelled? Presented in competition in Venice, the film is produced by BO Films (the directors' company) and co-produced by Entre Chien et Loup, Molenwiek Film (Netherlands) and Unlimited Films (France). It received the support of the VAF, the CCA and the Netherlands Film Fund. Imagine Film is distributing the film in Belgium.

(Translated from French)