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Calvaire

Belgium, France, Luxembourg

2004

88 Min
Color
2.35:1
French
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DIR Fabrice Du Welz

PROD Michael Gentile, Vincent Tavier, Eddy Géradon-Luyckx

SCR Fabrice Du Welz, Romain Protat

DP Benoît Debie

CAST Laurent Lucas, Brigitte Lahaie, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Nahon, Marc Lefebvre, Jo Prestia, Jean-Luc Couchard, Gigi Coursigni

ED Sabine Hubeaux

PROD DES Manu Demeulemeester

MUSIC Vincent Cahay

SOUND Marc Engels

Cannes (Semaine de la critique), Karlovy Vary (Focus on Belgian Cinema), Edinburgh, Toronto (Midnight Madness), Rotterdam (Rotterdammerung), Transilvania (Competition)

Synopsis

A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who’s looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn; the owner gives Marc a room for the night. Next day, the innkeeper, Mr. Bartel, promises to fix the van, demands that Marc not visit the nearby village, and goes through Marc’s things while the entertainer takes a walk. At dinner that night, Bartel laments his wife’s having left him, and by next day, Marc is in a nightmare that may not end. —IMDb

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Fabrice Du Welz

Fabrice Du Welz (born on 21 October 1972 in Belgium) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.

Du Welz studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Liège and at INSAS, a film school in Brussels. In the 90’s he directed many films in Super 8 and wrote humorous sequences for Canal +. His first shot film was the short film “A Wonderful Love” in 1999 who won a prize at the Fantastic’Arts. He has directed two feature length films since 2004: Calvaire which was screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, and three years later in 2007, Vinyan that competed in the Venice Film Festival competition.

Calvaire starred Laurent Lucas and Jackie Berroyer, and Vinyan was filmed in Thailand and starred Rufus Sewell.

Du Welz is currently working on the film “The Island at the thirty coffins” based on the work of Maurice Leblanc. His future project, “For Your Entertainment” (originally intended to be titled More), will star Brady Corbet. It is also the first US film for Du Welz… read more

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oldeuboi

23May12

Insanely disturbing. Downright creepy.

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Ryan Clark

24Feb12

This Belgian blend of Psycho, Deliverance, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre starts off great, but wears out its welcome with blatant homages to the latter film. The opening ten minutes are unnerving and oddly moving. I wish the rest of the film had been able to sustain that feeling of dread instead of replacing it with boredom and annoyance, but the protagonist's sense of confusion is well conveyed to the audience.

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Shelley

8Nov11

foreign horror films are the best. this film creeped me out in such a good way. not only was it terrifying, but also beautiful. very reminiscent of "Straw Dogs" and "Texas Chainsaw".

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nargs

22Oct11

a uniquely twisted film and leaves you wondering whats happening throughout the entire film. defiantly a good addition into the french torture porn scene

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Review: Calvaire (Personal Favorites #80)

By Twitchfilm.com on May 11, 2012
Fabrice du Welz raised quite a few heads when he released Calvaire. Not only are Belgian horror films a rare commodity, for a freshman effort Calvaire felt surprisingly mature and focused. Clearly this
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REVIEW OF CALVAIRE DVD

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Calvaire looks great and has an interesting central idea but it also has a lot of problems. It also stars a very capable young actor named Laurent Lucas whose turns in other fare like Lemming and In My
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REVIEW OF CALVAIRE DVD

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Calvaire looks great and has an interesting central idea but it also has a lot of problems. It also stars a very capable young actor named Laurent Lucas whose turns in other fare like Lemming and In My
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