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LA HORDE - THE HORDE
Special Event
France - 2009, 97’, 35mm, colour - World Premiere (Debut Film)
directed by Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
screenplay
Arnaud Bordas, Yannick Dahan
Stéphane Moïssakis, Benjamin Rocher
cinematography Julien Meurice
editing Dimitri Amar
music Christopher Lennertz
art direction Jérémie Streliski
cast
Eriq Ebouaney (Adewale)
Aurélien Recoing (Jimenez)
Jean-Pierre Martins (Ouessem)
Jo Prestia (Greco)
Claude Perron (Aurore)
Yves Pignot (René)
producer Raphaël Rocher
production Capture The Flag Films
world sales
Films Distribution
34, rue du Louvre, 75001, Paris, France
Tel. +33 1 53103399 - Fax +33 1 53103398
www.filmsdistribution.com
press office
Caroline Aymar, Unifrance
Cell. +33 6 85 42 87 26
caroline.aymar@unifrance.org
Unifrance in Venice : Excelsior - swimming pool
synopsis
On the outskirts of Paris, four corrupt cops go on a rampage to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, holed up in a condemned building. Once there, the officers' personal vendetta turns into a nightmare. Trapped, they are about to be executed when the unimaginable occurs: hordes of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures invade the building, savagely attacking everyone. Running to the roof, the survivors discover that their entire world is in chaos. The streets are filled with massive heaps of countless cadavers and the entire city is in flames. Alone and wounded, despite their mutual hatred, the gangsters and cops have no choice but join forces if they want to survive. They'll have to make it down thirteen floors full of voracious creatures but the greatest threat lies elsewhere...
There are the horror movies of the masses, of [George] Romero and [Danny] Boyle, and the more political new French horror films, in which ravenous hordes of zombies are “fourth states” that come from the banlieues and poverty, who kill out of need and hunger, while the others continue to do it out of bullying gusto. In La Horde the lesson of his French nouvelle vague clearly pays homage to the great masters of the 1970s, while the feud-alliance against the unformed populations of gangsters and corrupt police officers (with an old man who uses a machine gun like Viagra) and Paris in flames are simple yet ferocious metaphors. Genre cinema is no longer degenerate, at Venice Days a tradition is renewed, of a search for forms and noble content in mud, blood, live flesh. Horror pro nobis.
Boris Sollazzo
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PROGRAMMING |
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| 05/09/2009 - 22:30 hours |
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LA HORDE
Sala Perla 2
Press, Industry, All accreditations |
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| 07/09/2009 - 22:30 hours |
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LA HORDE
Sala Perla 2
Tickets, All accreditations
Followed by Q&A
Preceded by TEAT BEAT OF SEX - RESPECT |
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trailer
PB_Lahorde_IT.doc |
PB_Lahorde_ENG.pdf |
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