IFFR 2019

Empathy-arousing French adaptation of Christine Angot’s bestseller in which Rachel can’t seem to escape her doomed love affair.

Catherine Corsini’s story about single mother Rachel (great role for Virginie Efira), who has an on-off relationship with her daughter’s arrogant father, reveals that love isn’t always the answer. Every time her intuition lets her down. Finely observed drama without moral judgement, and a tense finale.

Voices

Limelight

Un amour impossible

In this gender-flipped <strong>Vertigo </strong>set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.

Two years after the love of her life disappeared without a trace, Asako falls in love with another man who looks identical to him, although his personality couldn’t be more different. Calm everyday life and raging passions mix seamlessly in this study of love in all its complex contrariness.

Asako I & II

Adaptation of war reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski’s most famous book mixes hyper-realistic animation, documentary, hallucinatory impressions and literary soul searching.

Ryszard Kapuscinski was the sole foreign reporter in Angola when a civil war erupted that developed into a new front in the Cold War. This animated adaptation of his book on that struggle does justice to his writing style, combining stark realism and literary subjectivity. Its news value is supported by documentary footage.

Another Day of Life

Next Film Patrons: Vox Lux

Avant-premieres of some of the cinematic highlights of the year: international award-winners and festival favourites which will be released in Dutch cinemas after IFFR.