Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #35. Bertrand Bonello’s Coma

Date:

January 12, 2022

Coma

It’ll likely be known as the “interim” project between regularly funded features 2019’s Zombi Child and the forthcoming La Bête, Bertrand Bonello (we did get a glimpse of Bonello in Ducournau’s Titane) conceived a micro-budgeted project about online behaviors, content consumption from the perspective/POV of a young female protagonist. Coma would have been shot in late in 2021 with the participation of actress Julia Faure.

Gist: This looks at the psyche of young girls, the discussions they have between them when consuming internet/youtube content from influencers, to discussing the abstract to relevant notions and banalities we find on online spaces.

Release Date/Prediction: Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight feels like the perfect home for this project.

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Eric Lavallée https://www.ericlavallee.com

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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