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DISCO BOY
2023
Director
Giacomo Abbruzzese
Starring
Franz Rogowski
Morr Ndiaye
Laetitia Ky
Leon Lučev
Runtime
91 minutes
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Aleksei (Franz Rogowski) is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. Entering into a kind of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away in the Niger Delta, Jomo (Morr Ndiaye) is a revolutionary activist engaged in an armed struggle to defend his community. Aleksei is a soldier, Jomo a guerrilla fighter. As a result of one more imperialist war, their dreams and destinies will intertwine.
What is “otherness” and how do you absorb it into who you are as you go through life, cross borders and find yourself inhabiting an ever-changing physical and mental space? Giacomo Abbruzzese exhibits a remarkable sense of out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness as investigates contemporary globalization - the intertwined consequences of capitalism, militarism, and immigration - while also creating an interior portrait of the emotional fallout from violence and guilt. DISCO BOY is a visually striking work, ripe with poetry and tension.
Bodies fall into trances that are both revelatory and altruistic because they represent an opportunity to commune with others. Accompanying this magical reverie is a throbbing trance score from electronic musician Vitalic that helps turn the night club into a place of transcendence. The disco becomes the ultimate destination for those who keep their sights firmly set on the sacred horizon of utopia.
“A visually thrilling, ambitious and distinctly freaky adventure into the heart of imperial darkness, or into something else entirely: the heart of an alternative reality, or a transcendent new self. This is bold filmmaking: a movie that wants to dazzle you with its standalone setpieces, but also to carry you along with its storytelling.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“A neon-dream parable cast against the shadow of sweeping global forces… a lean but sweepingly ambitious film crafted with formal rigor. Abbruzzese deftly transitions between haunting silence and kinetic energy. Rogowski pulls it all together with a stoic performance that emanates so much sorrow and history.” – Brandon Yu, The New York Times
FOR FANS OF: the sublimely haunting beauty of Franz Rogowski's face, BEAU TRAVAIL, night vision, ‘MORVERN CALLAR for boys’, anti-colonialism, Gaspar Noé/Nicolas Winding Refn, drinking wine like it's water, glistening male bodies and male bonding in the French Foreign Legion.
What is “otherness” and how do you absorb it into who you are as you go through life, cross borders and find yourself inhabiting an ever-changing physical and mental space? Giacomo Abbruzzese exhibits a remarkable sense of out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness as investigates contemporary globalization - the intertwined consequences of capitalism, militarism, and immigration - while also creating an interior portrait of the emotional fallout from violence and guilt. DISCO BOY is a visually striking work, ripe with poetry and tension.
Bodies fall into trances that are both revelatory and altruistic because they represent an opportunity to commune with others. Accompanying this magical reverie is a throbbing trance score from electronic musician Vitalic that helps turn the night club into a place of transcendence. The disco becomes the ultimate destination for those who keep their sights firmly set on the sacred horizon of utopia.
“A visually thrilling, ambitious and distinctly freaky adventure into the heart of imperial darkness, or into something else entirely: the heart of an alternative reality, or a transcendent new self. This is bold filmmaking: a movie that wants to dazzle you with its standalone setpieces, but also to carry you along with its storytelling.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“A neon-dream parable cast against the shadow of sweeping global forces… a lean but sweepingly ambitious film crafted with formal rigor. Abbruzzese deftly transitions between haunting silence and kinetic energy. Rogowski pulls it all together with a stoic performance that emanates so much sorrow and history.” – Brandon Yu, The New York Times
FOR FANS OF: the sublimely haunting beauty of Franz Rogowski's face, BEAU TRAVAIL, night vision, ‘MORVERN CALLAR for boys’, anti-colonialism, Gaspar Noé/Nicolas Winding Refn, drinking wine like it's water, glistening male bodies and male bonding in the French Foreign Legion.