Further Fashionable Barbaric Fantasy Sci-Fi ‘She Is Conann’ Official US Trailer
by Alex Billington
January 4, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“Six lives. Six incarnations.” Altered Innocence has revealed the US trailer for a wild & loopy experimental French movie known as She Is Conann, a singular re-imagining of the traditional Conan the Barbarian fable via a contemporary gender-swapped lens. Sure, you learn that proper! This premireed on the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition final 12 months in Administrators’ Fortnight, with stops at Unbelievable Fest and Sitges. It will be opening in February in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, and extra, with director Bertrand Mandico and the star at opening weekend showings at Anthology Movie Archives in NYC. Conan’s life at completely different levels is proven with a distinct aesthetic and rhythm from the traditional Sumerian period to the close to future. The movie is a barbaric fantasy sci-fi journey that boldly celebrates the influences of Fellini Satyricon, The Night time Porter, The Starvation, and Fassbinder’s whole oeuvre to craft a transferring portrait of a warrior looking for her place whereas present exterior of house, time, and that means. Wow. Described as an “intoxicatingly lush 35mm-shot hero’s journey.” This stars Claire Duburcq, Christa Théret, Sandra Parfait, Agata Buzek, Nathalie Richard, and Françoise Brion as the numerous faces of Conann — from younger girl to warrior queen, every overcoming the final— along with Julia Riedler & Mandico-constant Elina Löwensohn. Fireplace up the trailer under.
Here is the official US trailer (+ poster) for Bertrand Mandico’s She Is Conann, direct from YouTube:
In a barbaric fantasy sci-fi journey via time, sword-and-sorcery mythology is bent, fractured, gender-swapped by grasp visionary Bertrand Mandico in his third function epic. Six lives, six eras, and 6 deaths mark Conann’s poetic journey via completely different incarnations and lesbian loves. Guiding Conann via her many epic lives is Elina Löwensohn as Rainer, a Cerberus of many otherworldly dimensions whose paparazzi digicam sees all. The perversity of ‘The Wild Boys’ and the hero’s journey of ‘After Blue (Soiled Paradise)’ come collectively on this even better handmade homage. With influences from ‘Fellini Satyricon’, ‘The Night time Porter’, ‘The Starvation’, and Fassbinder’s whole oeuvre to craft a transferring portrait of a warrior looking for her place whereas exterior of house, time, and that means. She Is Conann, also referred to as merely Conann, is each written and directed by the French filmmaker Bertrand Mandico, director of the movies The Wild Boys and After Blue, plus many quick movies. It is produced by Avi Amar, Gilles Chanial, Emmanuel Chaumet. This premiered on the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition within the Administrators’ Fortnight sidebar. Altered will debut She Is Conann in choose US theaters beginning February 2nd, 2024. For extra, go to their official web site.
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