The 54th edition of IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam (30 January-9 February) will host the international premiere of Morlaix [+leggi anche:
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According to the screenplay, written by the director together with Fanny Burdino, Samuel Doux and Delphine Gleize, Gwen is in her final year of secondary school and her mother has just passed away. She lives in Morlaix, a small town in Brittany, France. Halfway through the school year, a sophisticated, well-read and alluring Parisian boy called Jean-Luc makes an appearance. Intrigued by his personality, the girl can’t help but feel attracted to him. In a moment of intimacy, the lad confesses to her that his brother died abruptly a few years ago.

The film is named after the town in Brittany where it was shot, both in black and white on 35 mm, and in colour on 16 mm. “The movie is about life perceived as a poetic and transcendental experience. A life-changing experience understood as a path that must be trodden,” explains the Catalonian filmmaker, who has combined professional and non-professional actors in this work. “It’s also an ontological film in which the form is more important than the story being told because in art, the form matters more than the content of the discourse. Artists express themselves through the form, and new ideas can spring forth when you use novel ones,” he sums up.

Rosales has previously taken part in the Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section (with Solitary Fragments [+leggi anche:
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Morlaix is a production by French companies Iwaso and Les Productions Balthazar in conjunction with Spain’s Fresdeval Films. It boasts support from the CNC, the Nouvelle Aquitaine region, the Brittany region and Ciné+ in France, and from the ICAA, RTVE, 3Cat, Movistar Plus+, the ICEC, the Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation, and the Institut Ramon Llull in Spain. A Contracorriente Films will distribute it in Spanish theatres from 14 March, and Condor Distribution will soon do likewise in France. The movie does not yet have an international sales agent attached.