Fiction

Thirst Street

Nathan Silver
USA, FRA 2017
83 min
V'17

Nathan Silver’s new feature, a drama of romantic obsession set mainly in paris, is a sort of experimental film. Silver, whose spontaneous melodramas tend to focus on the closed spaces of confining institutions, here condenses an entire city into the pathological bounds of a few tight venues – and woe unto his protagonist, Gina, when she ventures beyond them. Gina, a lonely flight attendant on a layover in paris, meets Jérôme, a slick bartender at a louche night club. For Jérôme, Gina is a one-night stand; for Gina, Jérôme is the love of her life, and she moves to paris to pursue him, secretly taking an apartment across the street from his home in order to spy on him. Burdge infuses her rigidly and scantly defined role with tremulous vulnerability, and Silver, aided by the splashy palette of Sean Price Williams’s cinematography, evokes derangement with a sardonic wink. (Richard Brody)

In the presence of Nathan SilverEsther Garrel and C. Mason Wells.

Credits
  • Lindsay Burdge - Gina
  • Damien Bonnard - Jérôme and Paul
  • Esther Garrel - Clémence
  • Lola Bessis - Charlie
  • Nathan Silver
  • C. Mason Wells
  • Sean Price Williams
  • Arjun G. Sheth
  • Hugo Lemant
  • John Magary
  • Paul Grimstad
  • Anna Brun
  • Anjelica Huston
  • Camille Nogues
In Vivo Films, Industry Standard Films, Maudit, Papermoon Films, Washington Square Films, Yellow Bear Films, TTM Films, The Third Generation

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