21st Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 18-28, 2024 Globe Cinema

12th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 20-24, 2024 Globe Cinema

The Five Devils

France, 2022
Archives 2023
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In Cinema Globe Cinema
Tue, Apr 25 9:30 PM Buy

description

Lea Mysius follows her celebrated directorial debut AVA with a sensitive, surreal, spellbinding second feature about motherhood and repressed love.

Vicky, a strange and solitary little girl, has a magical gift: she can reproduce any scent she likes, and collects them in a series of carefully labelled jars. She has secretly captured the scent of Joanne, her mother for whom she nurtures a wild, excessive love. When her father’s sister Julia bursts into their life, Vicky reproduces her smell and is transported into dark and archaic memories which lead her to uncover the secrets of her village, her family and her own existence.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2022
Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival 2022
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival 2022
Denver International Film Festival 2022
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2022
Göteborg Film Festival 2022
BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2023

DIRECTOR'S BIO
French screenwriter and director Léa Mysius was born in 1989. Her feature debut AVA received the SACD Award after screening in Critics’ Week in Cannes in 2017. Notable writing credits include Arnaud Desplechin’s OH MERCY! AND ISMAEL’S GHOSTS, André Téchiné’s FAREWELL TO THE NIGHT, Jacques Audiard’s PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT, and Claire Denis’ STARS AT NOON, which screened in Official Competition in Cannes in 2022.

press for The Five Devils

"A thorny exploration of how individuals’ personal ordeals can quickly merge into an impenetrable thicket of irreparable relationships."
- Slant Magazine
"THE FIVE DEVILS seeks to expose the truth while covering topics that manage to make sincere, magical realist cinema with a message that the things we want will come to us, but only when we’re ready."
- Deadline

details

Narrative / Romance / LGBTQ+ / Woman Director / First Feature / Drama

French | English Subtitles
96 minutes

credits

Director
Léa Mysius

Producers
Jean-Louis Livi
Fanny Yvonnet

Screenwriters
Léa Mysius
Paul Guilhaume

Cinematographer
Paul Guilhaume

Cast
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Sally Dramé
Swala Emati
Moustapha Mbengue

Official Website:
https://www.wildbunch.biz/movie/the-five-devils/

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awards

Winner, Cinema Extraordinaire, Bergen International Film Festival 2022

Winner, Dublin Film Critics Award Best Director, Dublin International Film Festival 2023

Winner, Honorable Mention Representation in Genre Film, Philadelphia Film Festival 2022

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