Cannes Video Day 7: Jean Paul Civeyrac’s Des filles en noir

My first thoughts after seeing Jean Paul Civeyrac’s Des filles en noir is that you’d never find the equivalent in the U.S. The picture deals with an older pair of teens and their fascination with, and thoughts towards death and suicide – and there is this pitch perfect scene that addresses their possible individual fates on a tandem level. It’s a smart, not so philosophical discussion without any baited material. What I particularly appreciated is that despite Elise Lhomeau and Léa Tissier’s characters being all in black, the girls didn’t have pure identifiable “labels” – basically want I’m trying to say they weren’t goth chicks. After having seen the film in the morning screening, I stuck around for the the opening of the press conference. Elise Lhomeau, Léa Tissier and Civeyrac were present.