THE CO(te)LETTE FILM
© Oliver Schofield
© Oliver Schofield
THE CO(te)LETTE FILM is Mike Figgis' cinematographic adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van den Broek.
Women and flesh, beauty and perishableness, raw and fragile. A delirious desire overwhelms the dancers. A desire for physical and mental satisfaction. The dancers go from appeal to sensuality, over lust, fleshness, fame, success, reflection and control, to silence. They are slaves of their own desires while trying to get in control of them. Female bodies in a frenzy.
In THE CO(te)LETTE FILM, three female dancers are shown in a rather intimate atmosphere, in a chicken-and-egg situation between desire and satisfaction. There is no confrontation, nor rivalry. No story-telling, no solution and no ending. Co(te)lette's story is restless and... empty.
Shooting took place between May 4-11, 2010 at the Alfacam soundstage in Lint, Belgium.
Credits
Director: Mike Figgis
Concept and choreography: Ann Van den Broek
With: Cecilia Moisio, Judit Ruiz Onandi, Frauke Marien
Producers: Bart Van Langendonck - SAVAGE FILM (B), Vito Di Rosa - RED MULLET (UK), Monique Van Beeck - WArd/waRD (NL/B)
Photography: Mike Figgis & Oliver Schofield
Editor: Arlen Figgis
Music composer: Arne Van Dongen
With the support of: NTR, the Dutch Media Fund, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
In association with: EXQI