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The Tournees Festival- New French Films on Campus

Ni Le Ciel Ni La Terre (Neither Heaven nor Earth)

Introduced by Dr. Roderick Cooke, FAU, (LLCL) 
When French soldiers stationed at a remote outpost in Afghanistan begin vanishing without a trace, their commander Captain Antares Bonassieu (Jérémie Renier) assumes that enemy troops are responsible. Then he learns that the Taliban are also disappearing and realizes he may be facing the most invisible of enemies. Described by its brilliant young director Clément Cogitore as “John Ford meets M. Night Shyamalan,” Neither Heaven nor Earth is the rare film to make the leap from the headlines to the Twilight Zone, playing out the eternal struggle between the spiritual and the physical on a desert battlefield where literally anything could happen. Deftly combining a nearly documentary attention to the details of military life with an artier, conceptual touch that reveals his background in the visual arts, Cogitore immerses the viewer in an environment unfamiliar to most but imagined by many – the contested tribal areas of Afghanistan – only to take us far beyond the imaginable, thus turning his debut feature into a deeply metaphysical film that works both as a thriller and a horror movie, but is not limited by either genre. This speculative contribution to the growing body of films about the endless wars of the 21st century is entirely its own beast, and signals the arrival of a major new talent.

 

For more information, contact Dr. Roderick Cooke at 561-297-0307 or e-mail cooker@fau.edu  

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