Cinema, as an art form, relies on two tools — sight and sound — to fool us into believing that all five of our senses are being stimulated. That makes Léa Mysius’ more-intriguing-than-successful supernatural thriller, “The Five Devils,” a very curious animal indeed, since it focuses on a young girl with an exceptionally strong sense of smell, a phenomenon its director can show but never properly reproduce.
Eight-year-old Vicky (Sally Dramé) would be right at home as one of the young mutants in an “X-Men” movie, so hypersensitive are her olfactory skills. A future perfume designer perhaps, the frizzy-haired kid spends her free time collecting odoriferous scraps from her life and environment and storing them in neatly labeled jars. When her mother, Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), discovers Vicky’s gift during a walk in the woods, she blindfolds her daughter and tries to hide under a pile of wet leaves. Sniffing the air,...
Eight-year-old Vicky (Sally Dramé) would be right at home as one of the young mutants in an “X-Men” movie, so hypersensitive are her olfactory skills. A future perfume designer perhaps, the frizzy-haired kid spends her free time collecting odoriferous scraps from her life and environment and storing them in neatly labeled jars. When her mother, Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), discovers Vicky’s gift during a walk in the woods, she blindfolds her daughter and tries to hide under a pile of wet leaves. Sniffing the air,...
- 4/1/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sally Dramé, Swala Emati | Written by Léa Mysius, Paul Guilhaume | Directed by Léa Mysius
Against the backdrop of rural France, youngster Vicky (Sally Dramé) finds she is able to recreate any scent she comes into contact with — including her mother Joanne’s (Adèle Exarchopoulos). When she does, Vicky is transported to hallucinations of her mother’s childhood, revealing how she came to befriend her long-lost aunt Julia (Swala Emati). With distant family troubles coming back to the fore, Vicky must grapple with her newfound truth and harsh schoolyard reality.
Queerness and any kind of witchy, sorcerer magic are two concepts which often effortlessly go hand in hand. It’s a camp notion even without context, yet The Five Devils doubles down on psycho-thriller tendencies as opposed to a kitschy, Charmed-like good nature. The film’s concept is all at once familiar yet unique, maintaining an edge by...
Against the backdrop of rural France, youngster Vicky (Sally Dramé) finds she is able to recreate any scent she comes into contact with — including her mother Joanne’s (Adèle Exarchopoulos). When she does, Vicky is transported to hallucinations of her mother’s childhood, revealing how she came to befriend her long-lost aunt Julia (Swala Emati). With distant family troubles coming back to the fore, Vicky must grapple with her newfound truth and harsh schoolyard reality.
Queerness and any kind of witchy, sorcerer magic are two concepts which often effortlessly go hand in hand. It’s a camp notion even without context, yet The Five Devils doubles down on psycho-thriller tendencies as opposed to a kitschy, Charmed-like good nature. The film’s concept is all at once familiar yet unique, maintaining an edge by...
- 3/29/2023
- by Jasmine Valentine
- Nerdly
In “The Five Devils,” her beguiling and exquisitely crafted latest, French director Léa Mysius furthers the ideas of adolescent self-discovery and extraordinary perception that drove her riveting début film, “Ava,” even as she introduces new elements of supernatural intrigue and intergenerational trauma to her cinema.
Whereas “Ava” set a coming-of-age story across one ephemeral summer, as experienced by a teenager soon expected to go blind, “The Five Devils” finds Mysius and co-writer Paul Guilhaume, also the film’s director of photography, casting their gaze back through time to tell a story about the painful family secrets guarded by a young mother and the magical ability that empowers her child (Sally Dramé) to uncover them.
Continue reading ‘The Five Devils’: Léa Mysius On The Material Magic Of 35mm Film & More [Interview] at The Playlist.
Whereas “Ava” set a coming-of-age story across one ephemeral summer, as experienced by a teenager soon expected to go blind, “The Five Devils” finds Mysius and co-writer Paul Guilhaume, also the film’s director of photography, casting their gaze back through time to tell a story about the painful family secrets guarded by a young mother and the magical ability that empowers her child (Sally Dramé) to uncover them.
Continue reading ‘The Five Devils’: Léa Mysius On The Material Magic Of 35mm Film & More [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 3/24/2023
- by Isaac Feldberg
- The Playlist
The much-maligned Richard III finally gets the royal treatment in Stephen Frears’ The Lost King as amateur historian Philippa Langley unearths the monarch’s five-century-old remains in a parking lot in Leicester, England, in 2012. Two books and a documentary later, IFC Films presents the feature film version in 750+ theaters.
“It took eight years from starting the search to cutting the tarmac. To see it telescoped into a hundred or so minutes made it really powerful for me,” Langley, who’s played in the film by Sally Hawkins, told Deadline.
Related Story Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin Pic ‘Moving On’ Sees $800K Opening – Specialty Box Office Related Story Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin Reunite In 'Moving On' – Specialty Preview Related Story 'The Magic Flute', With A 'Harry Potter' Feel And YA Cred, Hopes To Hit A High Note – Specialty Preview
Richard III (1461-1483) is one of Shakespeare’s most malevolent villains,...
“It took eight years from starting the search to cutting the tarmac. To see it telescoped into a hundred or so minutes made it really powerful for me,” Langley, who’s played in the film by Sally Hawkins, told Deadline.
Related Story Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin Pic ‘Moving On’ Sees $800K Opening – Specialty Box Office Related Story Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin Reunite In 'Moving On' – Specialty Preview Related Story 'The Magic Flute', With A 'Harry Potter' Feel And YA Cred, Hopes To Hit A High Note – Specialty Preview
Richard III (1461-1483) is one of Shakespeare’s most malevolent villains,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The sophomore feature from director Léa Mysius is an enchanting work of near-unclassifiable fantasy, an evocative tale that links the sense of smell with long-repressed memories, and in doing so crafts one of the year’s most unique coming of age tales.
Premiering to acclaim at last year’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight, The Five Devils tells the story of Vicky (newcomer Sally Dramé), a young child who exhibits a powerful sense of smell, who starts to uncover the memories of her mother from shortly before she was born via magic potions she creates and sniffs. It’s a high concept tale on paper, but one that uses its borderline science fiction conceit to explore the affects of long-repressed emotions on a family unit.
Ahead of the film arriving in theaters via Mubi this Friday, The Film Stage recently caught up with writer/director Mysius to discuss the film, the...
Premiering to acclaim at last year’s Cannes Director’s Fortnight, The Five Devils tells the story of Vicky (newcomer Sally Dramé), a young child who exhibits a powerful sense of smell, who starts to uncover the memories of her mother from shortly before she was born via magic potions she creates and sniffs. It’s a high concept tale on paper, but one that uses its borderline science fiction conceit to explore the affects of long-repressed emotions on a family unit.
Ahead of the film arriving in theaters via Mubi this Friday, The Film Stage recently caught up with writer/director Mysius to discuss the film, the...
- 3/22/2023
- by Alistair Ryder
- The Film Stage
A child’s Perfume-style ability enables her to witness emotional crises in her parents’ past, in this disquieting movie
There are some intriguing ingredients in the mix for this weird, contrived supernatural psychodrama from French director Léa Mysius; some strong performances too, and a genuinely stunning final image. For good or ill, I can imagine M Night Shyamalan wanting to remake it for Hollywood. But somehow it doesn’t all come together, delivering neither the stab of actual fear nor the satisfaction of real, plausible psychological insight.
The setting is Isère near the French Alps. The always excellent Adèle Exarchopoulos carries the movie in the role of Joanne; she works at the local sports centre and is unhappily married to Jimmy (Moustapha Mbengue), a guy from Senegal. The tensions in their marriage are made much worse when Jimmy reveals that his sister Julia (Swala Emati) is coming to stay; a...
There are some intriguing ingredients in the mix for this weird, contrived supernatural psychodrama from French director Léa Mysius; some strong performances too, and a genuinely stunning final image. For good or ill, I can imagine M Night Shyamalan wanting to remake it for Hollywood. But somehow it doesn’t all come together, delivering neither the stab of actual fear nor the satisfaction of real, plausible psychological insight.
The setting is Isère near the French Alps. The always excellent Adèle Exarchopoulos carries the movie in the role of Joanne; she works at the local sports centre and is unhappily married to Jimmy (Moustapha Mbengue), a guy from Senegal. The tensions in their marriage are made much worse when Jimmy reveals that his sister Julia (Swala Emati) is coming to stay; a...
- 3/21/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“The Five Devils” and “For My Country” won the Emerging Filmmaker and Audience Awards at this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center announced Thursday.
Hosted at Lincoln Center every year, the annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival screens a variety of films from contemporary French filmmakers. This year’s edition, which ran from March 2-12, hosted screenings for 21 features, including opening film “Revoir Paris” from Alice Winocour, Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister,” Louis Garrel’s “The Innocent,” and Quentin Dupieux’s “Smoking Causes Coughing.”
“The Five Devils,” the sophomore film from “Ava” filmmaker Léa Mysius, stars Sally Dramé as Vicky, a young girl with a supernatural talent for reproducing the scent of anyone and anything she encounters. The movie made its world premiere in May 2022 as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight section, where it received positive reviews from critics.
Hosted at Lincoln Center every year, the annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival screens a variety of films from contemporary French filmmakers. This year’s edition, which ran from March 2-12, hosted screenings for 21 features, including opening film “Revoir Paris” from Alice Winocour, Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister,” Louis Garrel’s “The Innocent,” and Quentin Dupieux’s “Smoking Causes Coughing.”
“The Five Devils,” the sophomore film from “Ava” filmmaker Léa Mysius, stars Sally Dramé as Vicky, a young girl with a supernatural talent for reproducing the scent of anyone and anything she encounters. The movie made its world premiere in May 2022 as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight section, where it received positive reviews from critics.
- 3/16/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
The most visceral films are often described as sensory experiences. But how can a visual medium translate the sensations of smell without the aid of a John Waters-style scratch-and-sniff card? This is a stylistic quandary French filmmaker Léa Mysius approaches with ease in her accomplished sophomore feature The Five Devils, an entrancing time travel drama in which the odors of the natural world give way to the memories of those who walked there before. Its mythology is deliberately freed of explanation so we may have a child’s-eye view into the timeline-bending narrative––a striking decision that is likely to leave those wanting a straightforward explainer of how it all works firmly in the cold. It’s a film that rewards fantastical curiosity, not literal inquisitiveness, using its borderline-science fiction conceit as a jumping-off point for a more intimate examination of the still-fresh wounds affecting a seemingly functional family unit.
- 3/1/2023
- by Alistair Ryder
- The Film Stage
Mubi has released the trailer for The Five Devils, French filmmaker Léa Mysius’s sophomore feature following her 2017 debut Ava. The film stars Adèle Exarchopolous as a woman whose daughter Vicky (Sally Dramé) possesses an unusual magical quality. The Five Devils had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it screened in the Director’s Fortnight section. The film’s official synopsis reads: Vicky, a strange and solitary little girl, has a magical gift: she can reproduce any scent she likes, and collects them in a series of carefully labeled jars. She has secretly captured the scent of Joanne, […]
The post Trailer Watch: Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Trailer Watch: Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/27/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Mubi has released the trailer for The Five Devils, French filmmaker Léa Mysius’s sophomore feature following her 2017 debut Ava. The film stars Adèle Exarchopolous as a woman whose daughter Vicky (Sally Dramé) possesses an unusual magical quality. The Five Devils had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it screened in the Director’s Fortnight section. The film’s official synopsis reads: Vicky, a strange and solitary little girl, has a magical gift: she can reproduce any scent she likes, and collects them in a series of carefully labeled jars. She has secretly captured the scent of Joanne, […]
The post Trailer Watch: Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Trailer Watch: Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/27/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
"A witchy thriller..." If you're into eerie, mysterious French films - watch out for this one. Mubi has released an official US trialer for The Five Devils, a French film from director Léa Mysius (also of Ava previously). It's now set to open in theaters starting in March. This premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival last year in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar. Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie, a man struggling to find his place. When Vicky's aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way. She has some special powers that allow her to connect to the past through smells. The film is lead by a magical performance from the young actress Sally Dramé as Vicky - who is the real break out this time. Glad she appears in this trailer. It also stars Adèle Exarchopoulos as her mom,...
- 2/27/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“The Five Devils” conjures the magic of childhood, forbidden first love, and the intangible mystery of death.
Directed by Léa Mysius (“Ava”), who co-wrote the film along with cinematographer Paul Guilhaume, “The Five Devils” cast a spell after premiering at 2022 Cannes as part of Directors’ Fortnight. The feature went on to win Best Picture – Next Wave at Fantastic Fest and is distributed by Mubi.
Newcomer Sally Dramé leads the feature as Vicky, a strange and solitary little girl, who has a magical gift: she can reproduce any scent she likes, and collects them in a series of carefully labeled jars. She has secretly captured the scent of her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), for whom she nurtures a wild, excessive love. When her aunt Julia (Swala Emati) bursts into their life, Vicky reproduces her smell and is transported into dark and archaic memories which lead her to uncover the secrets of her village,...
Directed by Léa Mysius (“Ava”), who co-wrote the film along with cinematographer Paul Guilhaume, “The Five Devils” cast a spell after premiering at 2022 Cannes as part of Directors’ Fortnight. The feature went on to win Best Picture – Next Wave at Fantastic Fest and is distributed by Mubi.
Newcomer Sally Dramé leads the feature as Vicky, a strange and solitary little girl, who has a magical gift: she can reproduce any scent she likes, and collects them in a series of carefully labeled jars. She has secretly captured the scent of her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), for whom she nurtures a wild, excessive love. When her aunt Julia (Swala Emati) bursts into their life, Vicky reproduces her smell and is transported into dark and archaic memories which lead her to uncover the secrets of her village,...
- 2/27/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Five Devils Trailer — Léa Mysius‘ The Five Devils / Les cinq diables (2022) movie trailer has been released by Le Pacte. The Five Devils trailer stars Sally Dramé, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Swala Emati, Moustapha Mbengue, Patrick Bouchitey, Daphne Patakia, and Hugo Dillon. Crew Paul Guilhaume and Léa Mysius wrote the screenplay for The Five Devils. [...]
Continue reading: The Five Devils (2022) Movie Trailer: Adèle Exarchopoulos’ Daughter Can Capture Anyone’s Scent in Léa Mysius’ Film...
Continue reading: The Five Devils (2022) Movie Trailer: Adèle Exarchopoulos’ Daughter Can Capture Anyone’s Scent in Léa Mysius’ Film...
- 1/31/2023
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
“The Five Devils” is the type of movie that is best experienced knowing as little as possible, which is why the teaser trailer (which you can watch above) works so well. It’s all glimpses and emotions, without giving anything away in terms of plot specifics or character traits. It manages to evoke the feeling of the movie without revealing any of its many secrets.
Here’s what you can know, safely and without fear of spoilers: “The Five Devils” (a reference to the mountain range which borders the small French town where the movie takes place) stars Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is the Warmest Color”) as a mom struggling with her quiet family life. She teaches swim classes at a local pool that she co-owns with her distant husband and humbly deals with the disruptive peculiarities of her young daughter (Sally Dramé). But her life is thrown into disarray when...
Here’s what you can know, safely and without fear of spoilers: “The Five Devils” (a reference to the mountain range which borders the small French town where the movie takes place) stars Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is the Warmest Color”) as a mom struggling with her quiet family life. She teaches swim classes at a local pool that she co-owns with her distant husband and humbly deals with the disruptive peculiarities of her young daughter (Sally Dramé). But her life is thrown into disarray when...
- 1/30/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
"A queer, witchy thriller." Mubi has revealed the first US teaser trailer for The Five Devils, a French film from director Léa Mysius who originally broke out a few years before with her little film titled Ava. This already premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight, and is set to open in the US this March. Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie, a man struggling to find his place. When Vicky's aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way. She has some special powers that allow her to connect to the past through smells. It's a unique film, with a magical performance by the young actress Sally Dramé as Vicky - who is the real heart & soul of it. This also stars Adèle Exarchopoulos as her mom, Swala Emati, Moustapha Mbengue, Patrick Bouchitey,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Click here to read the full article.
Thirty-three-year-old French director Léa Mysius launched onto the international scene with her 2017 debut, Ava, the story of a teenager slowly losing her sight, which won the Sacd Award at the Cannes festival’s Critics’ Week and was a hit at the French box office.
Her ambitious follow-up, The Five Devils, moves closer to genre territory with the story of Vicky (Sally Dramé), a young girl with a magical sense of smell who is able to transport herself into the buried memories of her mother (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and her love affair with Vicky’s father’s sister Julia (Swala Emati). Besides directing, Mysius is a busy screenwriter, working with Claire Denis on her Cannes Grand Jury prize winner Stars at Noon, and contributing to Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th District, Arnaud Desplechin’s Oh Mercy! and André Téchiné’s Farewell to the Night. The Five Devils,...
Thirty-three-year-old French director Léa Mysius launched onto the international scene with her 2017 debut, Ava, the story of a teenager slowly losing her sight, which won the Sacd Award at the Cannes festival’s Critics’ Week and was a hit at the French box office.
Her ambitious follow-up, The Five Devils, moves closer to genre territory with the story of Vicky (Sally Dramé), a young girl with a magical sense of smell who is able to transport herself into the buried memories of her mother (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and her love affair with Vicky’s father’s sister Julia (Swala Emati). Besides directing, Mysius is a busy screenwriter, working with Claire Denis on her Cannes Grand Jury prize winner Stars at Noon, and contributing to Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th District, Arnaud Desplechin’s Oh Mercy! and André Téchiné’s Farewell to the Night. The Five Devils,...
- 11/2/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French filmmaker Léa Mysius follows her nose in “The Five Devils,” focusing on the sense of smell. That’s her protagonist’s special gift, one that scares her mother (“Blue Is the Warmest Color” actor Adèle Exarchopoulos) but allows her to venture beyond the constraints of time and space.
Shown in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight – with Wild Bunch on board – it’s Mysius’ second feature film as a director following “Ava,” awarded at the French fest in 2017. She also co-wrote Claire Denis’ “The Stars at Noon,” presented in the main competition.
“It all started when I was a kid – I was fascinated by smells,” Mysius tells Variety.
“Together with my sister, we had fun making these little potions. We grew up in the countryside, which helped us develop that sense even more. One of my friends told me that growing up in Paris, he had to ‘close off’ his nostrils for good.
Shown in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight – with Wild Bunch on board – it’s Mysius’ second feature film as a director following “Ava,” awarded at the French fest in 2017. She also co-wrote Claire Denis’ “The Stars at Noon,” presented in the main competition.
“It all started when I was a kid – I was fascinated by smells,” Mysius tells Variety.
“Together with my sister, we had fun making these little potions. We grew up in the countryside, which helped us develop that sense even more. One of my friends told me that growing up in Paris, he had to ‘close off’ his nostrils for good.
- 5/26/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Every Cannes Film Festival, there is a quest to find the most iconic needle-drop moment from films playing across every strand. The 2022 gold medal is Léa Mysius’s to lose for her deployment of Bonnie Tyler’s 80s power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” The song is cued up at a karaoke night in a sleepy French village, selected by Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos) for her and Julia (Swala Emati) to perform. Julia has the distinction of being both Joanne’s long-lost, high-school love, and the sister of the man she ended up marrying. When Julia suddenly returns, after years of self-exile, theirs is not the easiest path back to each other. In their corner, helping out, is the snarling, roaring force of this raw anthem. Emat, a professional singer, and Exarchopoulos, an actress who puts her body into everything she does, grow in confidence as the song builds to its ragged crescendo.
- 5/25/2022
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- Indiewire
Cannes attracts a specific type of movie and film festival buyer. Rather than the crowd-pleasing Sundance film, the Neons, Sony Pictures Classics and Mubis of the world are on the hunt for the next arthouse event of the year, the movie that demands to be seen in a theater populated with other cinephiles, which led to big deals for titles like “The Worst Person in the World” and “Drive My Car.”
The 2022 competition slate, while already loaded with pre-sold films, includes some similarly auteur-driven work that should no doubt have some commercial appeal to the right buyer.
“Broker” – Neon
Neon ahead of the festival acquired competition title “Broker” from the Palme D’or-winning director of “Shoplifters,” Hirokazu Kore-eda. Kore-eda is Japanese but made his debut in Korean on “Broker” in partnership with the Korean media giant Cj Enm. The film follows Sang-hyun (Song Kang Ho) and Dong-soo (Gang Dong Won) as “brokers of goodwill,...
The 2022 competition slate, while already loaded with pre-sold films, includes some similarly auteur-driven work that should no doubt have some commercial appeal to the right buyer.
“Broker” – Neon
Neon ahead of the festival acquired competition title “Broker” from the Palme D’or-winning director of “Shoplifters,” Hirokazu Kore-eda. Kore-eda is Japanese but made his debut in Korean on “Broker” in partnership with the Korean media giant Cj Enm. The film follows Sang-hyun (Song Kang Ho) and Dong-soo (Gang Dong Won) as “brokers of goodwill,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Director Léa Mysius expertly crafts a queer, witchy movie in her Directors’ Fortnight debut film The Five Devils (Les Cinq Diables), which received a five-minute standing ovation at the screening I attended. Mysius takes concepts like identity, sexuality and mysticism and creates an intricate genre film that’s part time travel, part drama, and all heart.
Vickey (Sally Dramé) is a mixed-race child growing up in a small town in France, and she has a special gift: she can reproduce any scent from anything and anyone anywhere. She keeps the scents bottled for reference. Her sense of smell is so sharp she can tell which animal licked a pine cone and could find her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos) by smell even when she’s 20 feet away from her and covered in pine.
Joanne is a swim instructor and lifeguard who is in a loveless marriage with Jimmy (Moustapha Mbengue). When...
Vickey (Sally Dramé) is a mixed-race child growing up in a small town in France, and she has a special gift: she can reproduce any scent from anything and anyone anywhere. She keeps the scents bottled for reference. Her sense of smell is so sharp she can tell which animal licked a pine cone and could find her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos) by smell even when she’s 20 feet away from her and covered in pine.
Joanne is a swim instructor and lifeguard who is in a loveless marriage with Jimmy (Moustapha Mbengue). When...
- 5/24/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Directors’ Fortnight entry “The Five Devils” centers on a young, nearly wordless girl named Vicky (first-timer Sally Dramé) who has a strange and extraordinary gift: she can reproduce any scent she finds, which she then bottles up in a collection of labeled jars. Those captured scents include those of other people, and one of them is her mother, Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), with whom she has a parasitic relationship.
The film shares DNA with writer/director Léa Mysius’ (co-writing with Paul Guilhaume) film “Ava,” a Critics’ Week entry in 2017 about a 13-year-old girl who learns she’s losing her hearing. The filmmaker has a keen interest in the five senses (hence this film’s title) but also domestic discord, as the reappearance of Vicky’s aunt Julia (Swala Emati) throws things out of orbit in their small Alpine nestled at the feet of the mountains. Once Vicky captures Julia’s scent,...
The film shares DNA with writer/director Léa Mysius’ (co-writing with Paul Guilhaume) film “Ava,” a Critics’ Week entry in 2017 about a 13-year-old girl who learns she’s losing her hearing. The filmmaker has a keen interest in the five senses (hence this film’s title) but also domestic discord, as the reappearance of Vicky’s aunt Julia (Swala Emati) throws things out of orbit in their small Alpine nestled at the feet of the mountains. Once Vicky captures Julia’s scent,...
- 5/21/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Mubi has acquired North American and U.K. rights for director Léa Mysius’ drama “The Five Devils” ahead of its premiere in the Directors Fortnight section of this month’s Cannes Film Festival.
The film follows newcomer Sally Dramé as a strange and solitary girl named Vicky with the magical gift of being able to reproduce and bottle any scent she finds — including that of her mother, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is the Warmest Color”). When her father’s sister (Swala Emati) suddenly reappears in their conservative Alpine village, Vicki finds that reproducing her aunt’s smell helps unlock a series of memories as well as secrets about her village and her family.
Mysius’ first feature, “Ava,” premiered at Cannes in the Critics’ Week section in 2017, where it won the Sacd (Authors Society) prize. Her writing credits also include “Farewell to the Night” and “Paris, 13th District,” as well...
The film follows newcomer Sally Dramé as a strange and solitary girl named Vicky with the magical gift of being able to reproduce and bottle any scent she finds — including that of her mother, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos (“Blue Is the Warmest Color”). When her father’s sister (Swala Emati) suddenly reappears in their conservative Alpine village, Vicki finds that reproducing her aunt’s smell helps unlock a series of memories as well as secrets about her village and her family.
Mysius’ first feature, “Ava,” premiered at Cannes in the Critics’ Week section in 2017, where it won the Sacd (Authors Society) prize. Her writing credits also include “Farewell to the Night” and “Paris, 13th District,” as well...
- 5/11/2022
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Scene from Léa Mysius’s The Five Devils with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Sally Dramé, selected for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Photo: Wild Bunch With 11 films out of 23 directed by women the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has easily eclipsed for gender balance the Festival’s Official Competition which only has three titles (up to this stage) from female directors.
Announcing the selection in Paris today the Quinzaine’s director Paolo Moretti paraded new works by the likes of Mia Hansen-Løve (One Fine Morning); Alice Winocour (Paris Memories); Léa Mysius (The Five Devils with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Sally Dramé); Manuela Martello’s 1976; and The Super 8 Years by novelist Annie Ernaux and her son David Ernaux-Briot.
Other female filmmakers likely to make a significant impression in the 54th line of the sidebar section are Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer with the Irish-set God’s Creature featuring Emily Watson, Aisling Franciosi and Paul Mescal. The...
Announcing the selection in Paris today the Quinzaine’s director Paolo Moretti paraded new works by the likes of Mia Hansen-Løve (One Fine Morning); Alice Winocour (Paris Memories); Léa Mysius (The Five Devils with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Sally Dramé); Manuela Martello’s 1976; and The Super 8 Years by novelist Annie Ernaux and her son David Ernaux-Briot.
Other female filmmakers likely to make a significant impression in the 54th line of the sidebar section are Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer with the Irish-set God’s Creature featuring Emily Watson, Aisling Franciosi and Paul Mescal. The...
- 4/19/2022
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Company enjoyed A-list festival success in 2021 with Cannes and Venice winners Titane and Happening.
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled an eclectic French-language slate for 2022 featuring new films from Louis Garrel, Kim Chapiron, Alice Diop, Léa Mysius and Rebecca Zlotowski as well as directorial duo Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern.
The company is launching sales on the new French titles at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema, which is scheduled to run as an in-person event in Paris from January 11 to 17.
Wild Bunch enjoyed a high-profile festival run for its 2021 slate which saw Titane win the Palme d’Or in...
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled an eclectic French-language slate for 2022 featuring new films from Louis Garrel, Kim Chapiron, Alice Diop, Léa Mysius and Rebecca Zlotowski as well as directorial duo Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern.
The company is launching sales on the new French titles at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema, which is scheduled to run as an in-person event in Paris from January 11 to 17.
Wild Bunch enjoyed a high-profile festival run for its 2021 slate which saw Titane win the Palme d’Or in...
- 1/5/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.