MALGRÉ LA NUIT

Lenz leaves England and returns to Paris in search of Madeleine who disappeared in uncertain circumstances. He meets Helena, a nurse still struggling with the loss of her infant son. Thus begins a fevered love story set against a backdrop of sorrow, passion, jealousy and self-destruction. With his fourth feature film, Philippe Grandrieux (Sombre, La vie nouvelle) constructs an atypical work (radical for some), free of the usual traditional narrative patterns. One of the most experimental and intuitive French filmmakers around, he reinvents himself once again in search of new forms of visual representation, all the while paying careful attention to the sound composition. Not as dark as his previous films, the director collaborated with a former student, Rebecca Zlotowski (Grand central) on the screenplay. Nevertheless, one can feel the hand of Grandrieux who, thanks to his research, ventures into the meanderings of a tormented psyche to feed his feelings of despair. Another shock lurks in the shadows, waiting... courtesy of Philippe Grandrieux.