Young French Cinema 2024: Caiti Blues (2024)
Director: Justine Harbonnier Run Time: 84 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Caiti Lord
Country: France
Language: English
Young French Cinema 2024
Discover a new generation of directors, presented at the Film Center from Sept 6 – 12, 2024.
About the film:
World Premiere, 2023 Visions du Reel International Film Festival
Official Selection, ACID Cannes 2023
Caiti Lord had always dreamt of being a singer. A born-and-bred New Yorker, she studied at the best music schools and performed on Broadway. Her future was sparkling bright, but now the only thing that glitters is the snow that falls on the desert. Self-exiled in Madrid, New Mexico, far from the glitz and glamour of the Big Apple, Caiti’s looking for a way forward. In this former ghost town, surrounded by mountains and old hippies, between her day job slinging drinks to tourists and the sleepless festive nights, her life is slipping by. That’s the story she tells each day on her radio show. As the United States sinks into madness and the world turns terrifyingly absurd, Caiti feels increasingly suffocated. She’s about to turn 30 and her future has never felt so uncertain. How can she find her way back to a place of meaning and self-expression?
“With a beating heart as big as its protagonist, Caiti Blues will leave you with hope for the future and a reminder that there are still good people out there.”
— Danita Steinberg, POV Magazine
About the filmmaker:
Justine Harbonnier is a director, screenwriter, and director of photography born in France. After completing a master’s in comparative literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she began making short independent films that screened at several international festivals. Her first self-produced film, Il y a un ciel magnifique et tu filmes Angèle Bertrand (2014), had its world premiere at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Her next project is a documentary feature, La Simulation, which is currently in development with French co-producers Les 48e Rugissants and Special Touch Studios.
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