Chile’s ‘Erratics,’ Blending Denis Lavant, Speculative Fiction and Ghost Cinema, Bows at San Sebastián New Directors Competition
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Variety reports that Chilean director Thomas Woodroffe's debut feature "Erratics" ("Bloques erráticos") will hold its world premiere at the San Sebastian Festival's New Directors sidebar. The film weaves together speculative fiction, ghost cinema, and Patagonian hauntology as it follows the ghost of French filmmaker Lucien Castelnau, who awakens in the landscapes of Patagonia after a century of entrapment. Denis Lavant's involvement and the film's fusion of spectral storytelling with South American terrain mark it as a notable entry in this year's competition.
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Source: Variety, “Chile’s ‘Erratics,’ Blending Denis Lavant, Speculative Fiction and Ghost Cinema, Bows at San Sebastián New Directors Competition”. Read the original →
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