Ali & Ava
95'
United Kingdom
P&I Selection 2022
She tells the rich Bellmer family that she has been attacked, but we viewers know better – Gloria has just bashed her own face with a coke can. The question is, of course, why does she want their attention so badly? In the thriller Inexorable, it gradually becomes clear that this young woman will stop at nothing to infiltrate Marcel and Jeanne’s family.
In the same vein as films such as Scorsese’s Cape Fear (1991) and Denis Dercourt’s La tourneuse de pages (2006), director Fabrice du Welz (Adoration, 2019) centres his film around a rich family that becomes increasingly disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious interloper. Gloria knows exactly how to play the members of her host family off against one another. And she does so with bloody conviction. In this 70s-style thriller, ice-cold revenge and unconditional love are insidiously close. The actors generate palpable tension, with a particularly impressive performance from young Alba Gaïa Bellugi.
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P&I Selection 2022
Programme IFFR 2022
Avant-premieres of some of the cinematic highlights of the year: eagerly anticipated festival favourites and international award-winners.
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United Kingdom
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128'
France
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Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
141'
Italy
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