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Is it a horror? Is it a comedy? Is it a melancholic coming-of-age drama? The superb directorial debut of Canadian actress Charlotte LeBon (Yves Saint Laurent) is, like first love, all three at once: scary, funny and sad.
14-year-old Bastien and his family are on holiday at a lakeside cabin in Quebec with an old friend of his mother's. More importantly, with her 16-year-old daughter, Chloe, an unsmiling teen with a morbid sense of humor, on whom Bastien immediately crushes very hard.
The young cast are fantastic in this portent-laced genre mashup, in which Chloe's play-dead fantasies and ghost stories are one kind of menace, but for hesitant yet witty and self-possessed Bastien, it's the wet dreams and other mortifications of puppy love that are far more frightening.
The International Competition is sponsored by Yellow Moon.
Screening as part of the 22nd Belfast Film Festival. Please note: all tickets are sold via the Belfast Film Festival box office. If you have any access requirements please get in touch with the box office before booking: boxoffice@belfastfilmfestival.org.
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