Lightning
Directed by: Carmen Jaquier
With: Lilith Grasmug, Mermoz Melchior, Benjamin Python
Summer 1900, in the heart of a valley in southern Switzerland. Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows after five years in a convent. The sudden death of her sister forces her to return to the family farm to assume her new role as eldest child. Elisabeth quickly finds herself suffocated by this life of labor and obsessed by the mysteries surrounding her sister’s disappearance. She then seeks to free herself from her status and her new commitments.
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Screenings
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Wednesday 23 April 202520:00Venue : Le Studio des UrsulinesAddress : 10 Rue des Ursulines, 75005 Paris€9.40: Full price
€7.90: Person with a disability
€7.90: Student (under 26)
€5.40: Youth (under 15)
Free: Festival Pass
Online or at the ticket office: Culture Pass.
At the ticket office: Ciné Chèques.
Press
“While “Lightning” is imbued with eroticism, Carmen Jaquier steers clear of the cliché of the young prude who lets herself go. With modest precision, she depicts the discovery that a simple caress can sting (a surprising sensual scene with nettles), suspend a story, or divert it from its course.”
Olivia Cooper Hadjian – Cahiers du Cinéma
“A debut film by a young Swiss filmmaker of undeniable sensual power. Carmen Jaquier focuses on filming nature and the flesh as instruments capable of accessing transcendence—whether that transcendence is called God or anything else. What if God were another name for desire?”
Séverine Danflous – Transfuge
Credits
- Carmen Jaquier Director(s)
