L' Inconnue
The Unknown
Gefangen im falschen Körper. Eine Kette der Seelenwanderung entfesselt Arthur Harari – der mit dem Oscar ausgezeichnete Drehbuchautor von Justine Triets ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE – in seinem bizarren Body-Swap-Horror. Der Pariser Stadtfotograf David begegnet auf einer Party Eva, wenig später haben sie Sex, bei dem nicht nur Körperflüssigkeiten getauscht werden. David wacht im weiblichen Körper auf, während seine sterbliche Hülle bereits von Malia beseelt wird. Was sie nicht wissen: Eva, David und Malia sind Beute eines Sukkubus, eines weiblichen Dämons, der unaufhörlich nach neuen Opfern verlangt. Nach einer Graphic Novel der Brüder Arthur und Lucas Harari. (Dunja Bialas)
In Anwesenheit von Arthur Harari, Lilith Grasmug und Nicolas Anthomé (Produktion).
In Arthur Harari’s gripping existential thriller, a mysterious entity steals people’s bodies through sexual intercourse, leaving their former selves trapped in the bodies of strangers. David (Niels Schneider), a depressed photographer continuing his father’s documentary work on urban development, is drawn into this inexplicable phenomenon after attending a carnival-themed party and hooking up with a German actress named Eva (Léa Seydoux). Now inhabiting her body, David attempts to make sense of what has happened, as the film turns its premise into an enquiry into memory, consciousness, embodiment and the gaze: an identity crisis that extends to the very possibility of identification. The title, an almost mathematical term that suits the film’s appetite for both understanding and openness, could be referring as much to Eva as the mysterious entity. Both remain elusive, forever out of reach. What matters instead are the shell-shocked people left in the wake of a traumatic encounter. As L’INCONNUE confronts the past, it lays out thematic threads, narrative levels, formal devices and cinematic memories in dizzying motion, gradually descending into the depths of the unconscious and conjuring continual new layers of existential dread. (Antoine Thirion)
Arthur Harari: DES JOURS DANS LA RUE (2005, K), LE PETIT (2006, K), LA MAIN SUR LA GUEULE (2007, K), PEINE PERDUE (2013, K), DIAMANT NOIR (2016), ONODA, 10 000 NUITS DANS LA JUNGLE (2021)
- Léa Seydoux
- Niels Schneider
- Victoire Du Bois
- Valérie Dreville
- Shanti Masud
- Radu Jude
- Lilith Grasmug
- Victor Chakravarty
- Alexandre Pallu
- Jonathan Turnbull
- Arthur Harari
- Lucas Harari
- Vincent Poymiro
- Tom Harari
- Julien Tan Ham Sicart
- Olivier Goinard
- Fanny Martin
- Jeanne Delplancq
- Laurent Sénéchal
- Andrea Poggio
- Enrico Gabrielli
- Tommaso Colliva
- Emmanuelle Duplay
Pathé International