Death does not exist director Cannes Premiere joy greater than stress

Quebec animator Felix Dufour-Laperrière in Death does not exist ((La Mort n'existe pas) Center his fourth feature on two main characters, Helene and Manon when they hit a faustic bargain.

On the assumption that radical changes require violence to overthrow the old order, the two women and their comrades start an armed attack on wealthy landowners in a stately villa. It's not going well. Helene freezes and after escaping into a magical valley, which is filled with changing colors and tensions, Manon returns to follow them.

Together in a number of dialogues and monologues, the two women explore the bloody chaos behind them, violence, love, commitment and, as with the challenge of the status quo, may only come from something bad.

“Life. It's movement,” says Manon Helene at a time. “And the movement has inevitably cost. It is difficult. Save your skin or dirt your hands. And maybe change things. Or save what you love. It is true, it is difficult. But crying like a baby does not change anything

As Death does not exist Driving to Cannes for a world premiere before he is also examined at Annecy, the director Dufour-Laperrière says The Hollywood reporter In his poetically hand -drawn, he tried to combine the scenario of a tragic friendship with the fallout of a botched terrorist attack. “They primarily experience the impossibility of violence,” he explains. “They do not control the consequences. It immediately gets out of control. And yet they experience it in a world in which violence exists.”

As part of tragic history, Manon Helene offers the chance to have broken off her accomplices during the failed armed attack to return to the landowner villa and complete the terrorist mission. “Manon offers the opportunity to save her friends and save their love and save their conviction and to risk everything at the same moment. That is a tragic choice,” says Dufour-Laperrière.

The director adds Death does not exist has also been inspired by a dark and turbulent time in Canadian history, in the crisis of autumn 1970, as a radical separatist group in Quebec, the Front de Libération du Québec (FlQ), top -class politicians kidnapped their struggle for independence from Canada and imposed Ottawa up.

“In the beginning I saw the October crisis mixes.Alice in Wonderland,Dufour-Laperrière says about the FLQ, which used violence against symbolic goals for political profits. With regard to his minimalist animation style, the director insists that the abstraction with a mixture and an overlapping visuals explains a turbulent world with his film.

This applies in particular to the use of a color palette by Dufour-Laperrière to illustrate characters who only have a few but repeatedly changing details. “It makes a whole. The (characters) are part of the context, the background, and the background is part of them,” recalls the director. “You are not independent. And it was fun to be very free to use color and to approach like a painting.”

Dufour-Laperrière says about his world premiere of Canades for his Canadian co-production: “It is a real pleasure to get an animated feature for adults and to bring it to a very beautiful general cinema context like the Film Festival from Cannes. So the joy is greater than stress.”

Death does not exist Has a language guest that Zeneb Blanchet, Karelle Tremblay, Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, Barbara Ulrich and Irene Dufour comprises. UFO, BFF and Maison distribute 4: 3.