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Cannes Video Day 4: Cam Archer’s Shit Year

We’ve been talking about this one for so long, glad to have finally seen Cam Archer’s sophomore pic and the verdict? Think Jim Jarmusch’s early days and Anton Corbijn videos from the late 80’s but with a tone that is slightly surreal, slightly candid in the notion of retirement and slightly distilled – the shades of B&W have a dreamy, docu-like quality and makes this a purely art-house theatres.

We’ve been talking about this one for so long, glad to have finally seen Cam Archer’s sophomore pic and the verdict? Think Jim Jarmusch’s early days and Anton Corbijn videos from the late 80’s but with a tone that is slightly surreal, slightly candid in the notion of retirement and slightly distilled – the shades of B&W have a dreamy, docu-like quality and makes this a purely art-house theatres. Nice to see Melora Waters – I had lost track of her since PTA’s Magnolia. On hand for the world premiere night were stars Ellen Barkin, Luke Grimes and producing pair Parts and Labor’s Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy. Shit Year was part of the Director’s Fortnight – Cannes FIlm Festival 2010 – here is some footage from the film’s premiere.

 

 

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member 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 served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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