Darling of the film festival circuit, we have an update on latest project from celebrated Québécois auteur Denis Côté. His newest film, Violence Du Corps De L’Autre, recently completed a month of principal photography and is scheduled for an additional week of shooting this coming frigid snow-filled month of January. We were thinking he’d be returning to the Berlinale, however this production timeline positions it perfectly for a potential debut at a major festival, maybe a return to Cannes or a competition slot in Locarno. See the set pic above.
The film stars Côté’s recent muse, Larissa Corriveau (known for Répertoire des villes disparues, Hygiène sociale, and Mademoiselle Kenopsia). He also reunites with actor Pierrette Robitaille (Vic+Flo ont vu un ours) and French actor Philippe Rebbot. Cinematographer Vincent Biron returns as director of photography. The project is produced by Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette and Guillaume Vasseur, marking Côté’s seventeenth feature film in just under two decades.
Mira (Corriveau) travels the roads meeting desperate people with whom she seems to have formed strange death pacts. Without a home base, she stops at Madeleine and Ludo’s, two free spirits living in the forest. Taking a break from her missions, confused by a dazzling encounter with an excessive and intriguing young man, she takes advantage of this stopover to question her wanderings and reevaluate her dark contracts.
