Something Organic

Quelque chose d'organique

France, Canada

1998

85 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Carole Scotta, Simon Arnal-Szlovak, Lorraine Richard

CAST Romane Bohringer, Laurent Lucas, Charlotte Laurier, David DiSalvio, Stephen James Smith, Simon Hetu, Richard Notkin

MUSIC Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Bertrand Bonello

SOUND Alain Tremblay

Berlinale (Panorama), Karlovy Vary (Another View), Göteborg

Synopsis

Marguerite has been married to Paul for five years; miraculously the molecules in their pairing are still at work. Except for one thing: they live in Montreal, and molecules do not like the cold. Romane Bohringer and Laurent Lucas lend beautiful performances to Bertrand Bonello’s film.

Director

Bertrand Bonello

Bertrand was born September 11, 1968, in Nice, France.

Bertrand Bonello trained as a classical musician and played in an orchestra, accompanying Carole Laure and Françoise Hardy, among others, on tours and in the recording studio. He composed music for short films (including his own) as well as for commercials. His first feature film was Quelque chose d’organique (Something Organic) (1998), a co-production of France and Canada which was presented at the Berlin Festival (Panorama). Bonello moved to Montreal, Canada in 1991. He lives between Paris and Montreal.

Le pornographe (2001) won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Tiresia (2003) was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

His work has been associated with the New French Extremity. –Wikipedia