Mubi is showing Jean-Charles Hue's Eat Your Bones exclusively May 16 - June 15, 2016.As befits a mélange of genre trappings and documentary contours, Jean-Charles Hue’s Eat Your Bones is riddled with elements chafing at each other—daybreak and dusk, reverent sermons and macho bluster, an outlaw’s perpetual flight and a community’s promise of stability. Opposites right out of a 1950s western, but the setting here is a Yeniche camp, a circle of trailers and tents on the rural periphery of French society. Introduced zipping across a battered meadow on the back of a motorcycle, the 19-year-old protagonist Jason (Jason François) faces a pair of imminent events: his upcoming baptism (“Christians can’t go wild,” he worries) and the return of his brother Fred (Frédéric Dorkel), fresh off a 15-year prison stint and starved for barbecue meat and nocturnal joyrides. (Their reunion is filmed from a low angle...
- 5/15/2016
- MUBI
After the Blood of the Beasts
Director: Jean-Charles Hue
Writer: Jean-Charles Hue
After two films set within a particular gypsy community in France with 2010’s The Lord’s Ride and 2014’s Eat Your Bones (which premiered at Directors’ Fortnight in 2014), Jean-Charles Hue mixes it up a bit with third feature, After the Blood of the Beasts, starring Jean-Francois Stevenin as an aging burglar trying to find the treasure he’d buried years prior in the mountains. Assisted by a local gypsy, the burglar and his son don’t find what they’re looking for and end up involved in violent confrontation with a neighboring village.
Cast: Jean-Francois Stevenin, Sagamore Stevenin
Production Co.: Cappricci Production
U.S. Distributor: Rights available Tbd (domestic) Cappricci Films (international)
Release Date: Hue’s had a busy year, also unveiling an audiovisual project Crystal Bullet for an installation project at Spectre Productions. The presence of...
Director: Jean-Charles Hue
Writer: Jean-Charles Hue
After two films set within a particular gypsy community in France with 2010’s The Lord’s Ride and 2014’s Eat Your Bones (which premiered at Directors’ Fortnight in 2014), Jean-Charles Hue mixes it up a bit with third feature, After the Blood of the Beasts, starring Jean-Francois Stevenin as an aging burglar trying to find the treasure he’d buried years prior in the mountains. Assisted by a local gypsy, the burglar and his son don’t find what they’re looking for and end up involved in violent confrontation with a neighboring village.
Cast: Jean-Francois Stevenin, Sagamore Stevenin
Production Co.: Cappricci Production
U.S. Distributor: Rights available Tbd (domestic) Cappricci Films (international)
Release Date: Hue’s had a busy year, also unveiling an audiovisual project Crystal Bullet for an installation project at Spectre Productions. The presence of...
- 1/8/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
My favourite short film of 2015, Isabella Morra is a 22-minute epic by French newcomer Isabel Pagliai. It world-premiered—amid minimal-to-zero fanfare—at the gigantic International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) in November, as part of the 'Paradocs' sidebar devoted to edgy/experimental material, mainly shorts. "Cinema verité portrait of a French suburb that demonstrates how the threat of deadly adult violence lurks below the surface of child’s play," the Idfa website drily noted. "Isabella Morra", wrote Paradocs programmer Joost Daamen, "was the daughter of an early-16th-century Italian baron. When he left his wife and eight children to amuse himself at the French court, Isabella fell under the authority of her two narrow-minded, jealous brothers. They decided she was getting too familiar with their neighbour and punished her by death. Six years later, Isabella’s sonnets and songs were published, which made her into a well-known Renaissance poet. "Twentieth-century novelist...
- 12/30/2015
- by Neil Young
- MUBI
Family Matters: Hue’s Continued Fascination With Yenish Community
Director Jean-Charles Hue continues with the exploration of the Yenich community, a nomadic group of people that would be referred to as gypsies in passing parlance, with his third feature, Eat Your Bones, which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight program. Partially autobiographical due to Hue’s (a growing multimedia artist) distant relations, the film follows his 2010 title The Lord’s Ride, utilizing some of the same non-professional cast members here as well (in reality, most of them are members of the family being depicted). While the previous film was seen as hybrid of narrative and documentary formats, Hue’s latest injects film noir tropes into its examination of familial bonds amongst a vaguely defined colony where values conflict with the staunch grip of Christianity which seems to paralyze the residents whenever they aren’t committing blatant crimes.
Director Jean-Charles Hue continues with the exploration of the Yenich community, a nomadic group of people that would be referred to as gypsies in passing parlance, with his third feature, Eat Your Bones, which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight program. Partially autobiographical due to Hue’s (a growing multimedia artist) distant relations, the film follows his 2010 title The Lord’s Ride, utilizing some of the same non-professional cast members here as well (in reality, most of them are members of the family being depicted). While the previous film was seen as hybrid of narrative and documentary formats, Hue’s latest injects film noir tropes into its examination of familial bonds amongst a vaguely defined colony where values conflict with the staunch grip of Christianity which seems to paralyze the residents whenever they aren’t committing blatant crimes.
- 3/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Jean-Charles Hue's Eat Your Bones (Mange tes morts) took home best film at Turin Film Festival. The film looks at a young man in a community of gypsies whose life is turned upside down when his half-brother returns from a long prison stint. The Hollywood Reporter said of the film, "French shotgun story combines documentary and film noir traditions for generally compelling results," after its premiere in Cannes this year. Hue cast many people of the Yeniche nomadic peoples, resulting in an authentic look into a rarely seen community. The film was selected by an international jury
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- 11/29/2014
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Feature set against the backdrop of traveller community in France premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight
Jean-Charles Hue’s Eat Your Bones (Mange Tes Morts), set against the backdrop of France’s Yeniche traveller community, has won France’s Jean Vigo for 2014.
The hybrid film, mixing a documentary style with elements of the noir and western genres, is inspired by the real-life Dorkel gypsy family living on the outskirts of Paris which Hue has been following since 2003.
A number of Hue’s previous works including his feature The Lord’s Ride (La Bm de Seigneur) were also set against the backdrop of the community.
Eat Your Bones revolves around three Yeniche brothers who hijack a truck full of copper. The film’s title is a Yeniche insult implying the recipient has betrayed his or her ancestors.
The film is produced by Thierry Lounas of Capricci Films which is also selling the film internationally.
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Jean-Charles Hue’s Eat Your Bones (Mange Tes Morts), set against the backdrop of France’s Yeniche traveller community, has won France’s Jean Vigo for 2014.
The hybrid film, mixing a documentary style with elements of the noir and western genres, is inspired by the real-life Dorkel gypsy family living on the outskirts of Paris which Hue has been following since 2003.
A number of Hue’s previous works including his feature The Lord’s Ride (La Bm de Seigneur) were also set against the backdrop of the community.
Eat Your Bones revolves around three Yeniche brothers who hijack a truck full of copper. The film’s title is a Yeniche insult implying the recipient has betrayed his or her ancestors.
The film is produced by Thierry Lounas of Capricci Films which is also selling the film internationally.
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- 6/16/2014
- ScreenDaily
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