Beast
107'
United Kingdom
IFFR 2018
Paula (Laetitia Dosch) is broke, in a stolen coat, has a fresh scratch on her forehead and is pretty upset. She was with her former lecturer for a decade and now he’s dumped her. In revenge she kidnaps his cat and starts roaming Paris. Precariously close to being homeless the former ‘girlfriend of’ tries to reinvent herself. To this end, she accommodates everyone she meets whether it be a lesbian who thinks she’s a former classmate or a young mother looking for an au pair.
Alongside being a character study of an unmoored individual, Jeune femme can be seen as a portrait of a generation. Paula is a wandering thirty-something who has never been tested, but also has no perspectives. As she says herself: "I feel nostalgic about things I haven’t done yet."
IFFR 2018
Programme IFFR 2018
Avant-premieres of some of the cinematic highlights of the year: international award-winners and festival favourites that will be released in Dutch cinemas after IFFR.
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United Kingdom
IFFR 2018
90'
Netherlands
IFFR 2018
76'
Belgium
IFFR 2018