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film still from Bastards depicting the side profile of Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroianni emerging from darkness and staring into the front.

Bastards

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Year: 2013
Director: Claire Denis
Format: DCP / Category III / 100 min.
Language: Multiple (with Chinese and English subtitles)
Audience: Everyone
Location: House 1
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Standard: HKD 85
Concessions: HKD 68

film still from Bastards depicting the side profile of Vincent Lindon and Chiara Mastroianni emerging from darkness and staring into the front.

Bastards

Sea captain Marco returns to Paris upon hearing that his sister’s husband has committed suicide. He finds out that his sister’s family business is in tatters, while her teenage daughter is hospitalised with mysterious injuries. Wishing to discover what happened, Marco rents an apartment near his brother-in-law’s creditor—a shady businessman with unspeakable secrets—and begins to seduce the man’s lover Raphaëlle.

Twelve years after Trouble Every Day (2001), Claire Denis returns to the territory of genre films with this menacing revenge thriller. Yet in Bastards, Denis foregoes the jaw-dropping blood and flesh of a horror film and, instead, sets an ominous mood in this nocturnal neo-noir. Bastards dares us not to avert our eyes from the darkness of our kind.

Film still from Bastards featuring Lola Créton who is sporting dark brown, mid-length curly hair. Warm light shines on her face against the darkness behind her, uncovering an expression which is hard to read.

Claire Denis. Bastards, 2013. Photo: Courtesy of Wild Bunch International

In this film still from Bastards, Vincent Lindon smiles and hovers over Lola Creéton who is awake and lying in bed.

Claire Denis. Bastards, 2013. Photo: Courtesy of Wild Bunch International

About the Director

Claire Denis (b. 1946, France) began her career working on set in Dusan Makavejev's Sweet Movie (1974). Her years working alongside Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch were crucial to her growth as a filmmaker before she directed her debut Chocolat (1988). Her next films I Can’t Sleep (1994) and Nénette et Boni (1996) interweave narratives inspired by the urban culture of Paris. Denis’s elliptical narrative and visual style received widespread acclaim with Beau Travail (1999) while Trouble Every Day (2001) made a shocking presentation in which Denis, regarded as an arthouse director, turned to the horror genre. The 2000s were significant for her career, which saw the release of Friday Night (2002), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), and White Material (2009). In 2022, Both Sides of the Blade and Stars at Noon won prizes at the Berlinale and Cannes respectively. Working closely with her long-time collaborators, such as cinematographer Agnès Godard and the rock band Tindersticks, Denis has contributed a diverse body of work to contemporary cinema.

Image at top: Claire Denis. Bastards, 2013. Photo: Courtesy of Wild Bunch International

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