Since its founding in 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, the Directors’ Fortnight has served as a vital and boldly independent counter program to the Cannes Film Festival. This year, the Directors’ Fortnight is taking it on the road for the first time, presenting locally curated selections of its 2024 program with director Julien Rejl in person.
The Fortnight Extended is presented by the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Villa Albertine, Acropolis Cinema, and the Museum of the Moving Image. Discount passes for admission to all seven screenings at the Culver Theater can be purchased here.
About the film:
Pablo and his teenage sister, Apolline, have grown up together playing Darknoon, an online heroic fantasy video game. Darknoon announces the imminent disappearance of its universe, while Pablo's relationship with a man called Night takes on increasing importance, and not just because they make and deal party drugs together. Part-thriller, part-romance, between digital and desiring bodies, a film about the loss of childhood innocence: Ready Player Love. An Altered Innocence release.
TRT: 106 min
"Captures the zeitgeist of a generation lost between virtual and real worlds. Poggi and Vinel’s unique vision defies expectations." —Matteo Bittanti, Milan Machinima
"A bold and highly ambitious film... resolutely modern. The French duo have set the bar much higher than for Jessica Forever, their first feature which was already particularly out of the ordinary." —Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa
"[Poggi and Vinel] are artists who seek to instigate the nu-materiality of digital unreality, the manners in which our character dramas are slowly transposing themselves onto an awoken artifice: no longer are the borders of this media finite, no longer can they totally uphold the insular logics they were designed with. [With Eat the Night,] the classical narrativity of cinema has now entered into the playing field." —Zachary Goldkind, InReviewOnline
(Available to download after screening date)