A philosopher once said that despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it. There isn’t much in terms of reprieve Locarno and Sitges preemed amour fou Adoration — a tale of first love where the stakes are so high, and the bound so instantly strong that the perilous journey ahead for teen twosome Paul (Thomas Gioria of Xavier Legrand’s Jusqu’à la garde) and Gloria (Fantine Harduin of Haneke’s Happy End) is highjacked of moments of amnesty. This pairing are unlikely to come out unscathed.
Settling into his sixth feature film (final instalment in the Ardennes trilogy), Fabrice du Welz delves into notions of attachment and while not as fiery as the spiritual predecessor in Alleluia, we become witness to the lengths (or obsessiveness) one is willing to go to defend their first. Du Welz brought spent a little time on the film festival circuit to support the film before embarking on his next feature. Here is my interview with the filmmaker.
