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She is Conann (2023)
Directed by Bertrand Mandico (The Wild Boys)
Featuring: Elina Löwensohn, Christa Théret, Julia Riedler
In a barbaric fantasy sci-fi trip through time, sword-and-sorcery mythology is bent, fractured, and gender-swapped by master visionary Bertrand Mandico.
"Across three feature films—2017’s The Wild Boys, 2021’s After Blue (Dirty Paradise), and now She Is Conann—French filmmaker Bertrand Mandico has proven his artistic devotion to three things: Poetic dialogue, iconoclastic gender-bending, and glitter." - Katie Rife, RogerEbert.com
"What did I just watch? It’s called She Is Conann, and it defies simple summarization." - Hope Madden, MaddWolf.com
"Decadent, hermetic, and gleefully hostile to realism, French writer-director Bertrand Mandico’s She Is Conann is the cinematic equivalent of a French Symbolist poem." - William Repass, Slant Magazine
Six lives, six eras, and six deaths mark Conann’s poetic journey through different incarnations and lesbian loves. Guiding Conann through her many epic lives is Elina Löwensohn (Amateur, Let the Corpses Tan) as Rainer, a Cerberus of many otherworldly dimensions whose paparazzi camera sees all. The perversity of The Wild Boys and the hero’s journey of After Blue (Dirty Paradise) come together in this even greater handmade homage as Mandico ropes in influences as lush as Fellini Satyricon, The Night Porter, The Hunger, and Fassbinder’s entire oeuvre to craft a moving portrait of a warrior trying to find her place while outside of space, time, and meaning.
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