Paper Flags

Guests Expected

Director Nathan Ambrosioni is expected to attend 4/20 and 4/21 screenings.

Description

Displaying a mature style and sensibility despite his age, Paper Flags director Ambrosioni (at 19, one of cinema’s youngest directors of a full-length feature ever) offers a complex and compelling story of sibling tensions. Vincent (shape-shifting character actor Guillaume Gouix), recently released from prison, immediately heads to his sister Charlie’s (Noémie Merlant) modest home. The film carefully tracks Charlie’s sense of unease around her brother’s return—she pretends he’s just an acquaintance when she’s out with friends —until a visit from their father causes their simmering resentments to boil over.

“The mise-en-scène remains interesting in a number of ways. The characters’ feelings and thoughts guide the shots and create true moments of tension and poetry, echoing sometimes the work of Xavier Dolan. At just 19 years old, Nathan Ambrosioni displays a true maturity as a director. He is, without a doubt, a young director whose career demands to be closely watched in the future.” – Kevin Gueydan, Abus de Ciné (translated from the French)

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