Into the Forest
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Canada, 2015 (fiction, 101 minutes, anglais)
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| Image : © Elevation Pictures |
Description du film [en anglais] :
« Based on Jean Hegland's novel of the same name, Into the Forest takes place in the near future, as a massive power outage overwhelms all of continental North America and sets off a fight for human survival. Living with their father, Robert (Callum Keith Rennie [...]), in a beautiful house more than forty kilometres from the nearest town, sisters Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood) gradually become aware of the severity of their situation, as their supplies dwindle and the blackout continues with no end in sight. Battling extreme loneliness and faced with the imminent threats of starvation, illness, and intruders, the young women must double down on discipline and creativity in order to ensure that they see the next day. Page and Wood offer powerful and nuanced performances as Nell and Eva, who are forced to re-examine their place in the world and their relations to the land, their home, and each other. With Daniel Grant's cinematography rendering the landscape at once sublime and threatening, Into the Forest offers a fresh and potent take on the apocalyptic thriller, exposing the vulnerabilities of our modern world and bringing a humanistic approach to its fearsome vision of an all-too-plausible future. »
-- Magali Simard
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| Générique (partiel) : |
| Scénario : | Patricia Rozema |
| Source originale : | Into the Forest, un roman de Jean Hegland |
| Produit par : |
Niv Fichman, Aaron L. Gilbert, Ellen Page, Sriram Das, Haroon Saleem, Steve Shapiro, Jason Cloth, Allan Stitt, Kelly Morel, Kelly Bush Novak, Adrian Love |
| Interprètes principaux : |
Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie, Michael Eklund, Wendy Crewson |
| Images : |
Daniel Grant |
| Montage images : |
Matthew Hannam |
| Musique : |
Max Richter |
| Société de production : |
Bron Studios, Rhombus Media, CW Media Finance |
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Prix décerné à Into the Forest
Notes sur Into the Forest
- Tourné à Campbell River (Colombie-Britannique).
- Présenté au Toronto International Film Festival en 2015.
- Sélectionné comme l'un des dix meilleurs longs métrages canadiens de 2015 pour le Canada's Top Ten Film Festival en 2016.
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Citations sur Into the Forest [en anglais]
« At first [in Into the Forest], this chin-up attitude—the family is keeping calm, carrying on—comes across as a nice change of genre pace. Either that or Canadians are a whole lot more chill than Americans. Whatever the case, there's something appealing about the movie's relative quiet, though it makes Ms. Rozema's job increasingly difficult because she needs to fill that silence with something. »
-- Manohla Dargis
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« While [Ellen] Page and [Evan Rachel] Wood hardly look like sisters, their commanding, utterly believable performances [in Into the Forest] remove any doubt. Nell and Eva's relationship forms the heart of the film and, along with the fleeting moments of ecstasy they find in things previously taken for granted—eating a piece of chocolate, watching home movies—their bond provides something of genuine beauty in a progressively bleak world. »
-- Laura Kern
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« [In Into the Forest, Patricia] Rozema brings the Gothic fantastic sensibility of her early New Queer Cinema successes, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) and When Night Is Falling (1995), into dystopia, creating a telling parable, a science fiction in which technology and modern scientific knowledge both fail, and older ways of knowing and being come to the fore. »
-- Sophie Mayer
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Bibliographie sur Into the Forest
Articles de revues scientifiques
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MAYER, Sophie. « Girl Power: Back to the Future of Feminist Science Fiction with Into the Forest and Arrival », Film Quarterly, vol. 70, no. 3 (printemps 2017), pp. 32-42.
[en anglais]
Articles de journaux, de revues grand public ou de sites d'information en ligne
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DARGIS, Manohla. « 'Into the Forest': Be very, very quiet. The world's ending », critique de Into the Forest, New York Times, 28 juillet 2016.
[en anglais]
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KERN, Laura. « Into the Forest », critique de Into the Forest, Film Comment, vol. 52, no. 4, juillet-août 2016.
[en anglais]
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SMITH, Nigel M. « Into the Forest review: Ellen Page lost in thorny apocalypse drama », critique de Into the Forest, Guardian, 15 septembre 2015.
[en anglais]
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TAYLOR, Kate. « Into the Forest and Koneline are two women-driven stories of survival », Globe and Mail, 3 juin 2016.
[en anglais]
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DUNLEVY, T'Cha. « Into the Forest: Ellen Page and Patricia Rozema walk on the wild side », Montreal Gazette, 2 juin 2016.
[en anglais]
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TOBIAS, Scott. « Toronto Film Review: 'Into the Forest'; Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood play sisters fighting for survival in this heartfelt but under-realized adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel. », critique de Into the Forest, Variety, 13 septembre 2015.
[en anglais]
Sites Web sur Into the Forest
