Young French Cinema 2024: The Rapture (2024)
Director: Iris Kaltenbäck Run Time: 97 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2023
Starring: Alexis Manenti, Hafsia Herzi, Nina Meurisse
Country: France
Language: French
Young French Cinema 2024
Discover a new generation of directors, presented at the Film Center from Sept 6 – 12, 2024.
About the film:
Official Selection, 2023 Cannes Film Festival Critics Week.
Winner of the Louis-Delluc Prize for Best first feature.
Lydia, a midwife highly invested in her career, has completely lost control of her life. Was it due to heartbreak, her best friend Salomé’s pregnancy, or meeting Milos, with whom she could have a potential new relationship? Lydia gets stuck in a spiral of lies in which everyone’s lives are turned upside down.
“the movie bears witness to and retraces the various stages of a downward spiral… in the unnamed pressure cooker of a capital city where the sheer brutality of poverty and solitude can easily become overwhelming.”
—Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa
About the filmmaker:
Iris Kaltenbäck is a Writer and Director who grew up in France. She went to Le Femis film school to study screenwriting and afterward in 2013 became the assistant to theatre director Declan Domellan at Les Gémeaux in Paris. Kaltenbäck then directed her first short, A Visit From the Stork (2015) which won the Next Generation Audience Award at Brussels Short Film Festival. Rapture (2024) is Kaltenbäck’s first feature film and it won a plethora of awards and has been presented at numerous festivals. It was selected for La Semaine de la Critique in 2023 and received the SACD prize. The film also won the Special Jury Prize in Turin, Louis-Delluc Prize for Best first feature and nominated for a César Award for Best First Film.
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