Next time someone wistfully insists, “They don’t make ’em like they used to,” why not point that nostalgic cinephile to the work of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon? The Belgium-based creative couple are almost single-handedly keeping the classic burlesque tradition alive on-screen — if the word “single-handedly” can fairly be used to describe a near-silent comic duo with four hands between them, plus a growing company of collaborators (including dancer Kaori Ito) and a prosthetic arm with a mind of its own.
In “The Falling Star,” Abel and Gordon bring their old-school comedic sensibility to what could loosely be described as a detective story, told in a film noir style punctuated with flashes of color: a red dress, a tiny green car, a bright yellow scooter. Centered on a tiny Brussels bar, the pair’s relatively minor new project features a missing persons investigation, a sorta-kinda kidnapping, a fugitive couple...
In “The Falling Star,” Abel and Gordon bring their old-school comedic sensibility to what could loosely be described as a detective story, told in a film noir style punctuated with flashes of color: a red dress, a tiny green car, a bright yellow scooter. Centered on a tiny Brussels bar, the pair’s relatively minor new project features a missing persons investigation, a sorta-kinda kidnapping, a fugitive couple...
- 8/3/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
“Lost in Paris” directing duo Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon have shared a first look at their new film “The Falling Star,” which premieres at this year’s Locarno Film Festival.
Abel and Gordon also star in the film, which follows Boris (Abel), a former activist who works at a bartender at the Falling Star. According to the film’s official synopsis, Boris’ “guilty past resurfaces when a victim finds him and wants revenge. The appearance of a double, the depressed and solitary Dom (Abel), provides Boris, his resourceful partner Kayoko and their faithful friend Tim with the perfect escape plan. But they haven’t accounted for Dom’s ex-wife (Gordon), a suspicious detective on their trail.”
The new clip sees Gordon, as Dom’s ex-wife Fiona, going to great lengths to transport a tall sunflower stalk. She arrives at a graveyard and, after delivering the sunflower to a particular grave,...
Abel and Gordon also star in the film, which follows Boris (Abel), a former activist who works at a bartender at the Falling Star. According to the film’s official synopsis, Boris’ “guilty past resurfaces when a victim finds him and wants revenge. The appearance of a double, the depressed and solitary Dom (Abel), provides Boris, his resourceful partner Kayoko and their faithful friend Tim with the perfect escape plan. But they haven’t accounted for Dom’s ex-wife (Gordon), a suspicious detective on their trail.”
The new clip sees Gordon, as Dom’s ex-wife Fiona, going to great lengths to transport a tall sunflower stalk. She arrives at a graveyard and, after delivering the sunflower to a particular grave,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
L’Étoile filante
After an output with Bruno Romy on their first three features the Belgian tandem of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon moved into their fifth feature film last July. Dubbed as a darkly comic mystery thriller, L’Étoile filante (The Falling Star) will once again showcase the two in front of the camera. Dancer Kaori Ito is also cast. Very much in the whimsical Tati vein, the pair have premiered at several major film festivals over the years even netting a surprise world premiere invite at the Telluride Film Fest back in 2016 for Lost in Paris.…...
After an output with Bruno Romy on their first three features the Belgian tandem of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon moved into their fifth feature film last July. Dubbed as a darkly comic mystery thriller, L’Étoile filante (The Falling Star) will once again showcase the two in front of the camera. Dancer Kaori Ito is also cast. Very much in the whimsical Tati vein, the pair have premiered at several major film festivals over the years even netting a surprise world premiere invite at the Telluride Film Fest back in 2016 for Lost in Paris.…...
- 1/9/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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