Saint-Narcisse
by Bruce LaBruce
with Félix-Antoine Duval, Tania Kontoyanni, Alexandra Petrachuk, Andreas Apergis
(Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, 101’, 2020)
Canada, 1972. Dominic, 22 years old, has a fetish… for himself. Nothing turns him on more than his reflection, with much of his time spent taking Polaroid self portraits. When his loving grandmother dies, he discovers a deep family secret: his lesbian mother didn’t die in childbirth and he has a twin brother, Daniel, raised in a remote monastery by a depraved priest. The power of destiny brings back together the two beautiful, identical brothers, who, after being reunited with their mother Beatrice, are soon embroiled in a strange web of sex, revenge and redemption.
Every filmmaker should make at least one film in his or her life on the following subjects: twins or doppelgangers, incest, a cabin in the woods, nuns and/or monks, a motorcycle driver, lesbians living in the wild, and a sexually abusive priest. Saint-Narcisse has allowed me to combine all of these subjects in one film. As with Gerontophilia, the first movie I made in Québec, Saint-Narcisse is an homage to Quebecois cinema, particularly from the 70’s, my favorite cinematic era. The film was shot by legendary Quebecois cinematographer Michel LaVeaux, who has been active in the film world in Québec since the seventies, having worked with such legends as Claude Jutra, Michel Brault, and Francis Mankiewicz. As Saint-Narcisse is set in the early seventies, I wanted to make a film shot on digital that had the style and atmosphere of a Québec 35mm movie from that period. LaVeaux used a lighting kit and zoom lenses specific to the era, and color timed the film to reflect that mood. Saint-Narcisse is perhaps my most traditionally narrative and dramatic film to date, heightened by a great score by Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux that is classical and contemporary at the same time. (Bruce LaBruce)
Presented in Giornate degli Autori
Sep 04 | 11.30 Sala Perla (Lido) | Press, Industry
Sep 11 | 17.00 Sala Perla (Lido) | All Accreditations
Sep 12 | 21.00 Multisala Rossini 3 (Venezia) | Tickets
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1976 Productions
Six Island Productions
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