Nightmare (Bowling) Alley: Mazuy Shocks with Disturbing Thriller
Every once in a while, a film comes along which conceptualizes brutality so shocking and vile it conjures a visceral reaction among the most desensitized of audience members. That it’s a moment contained in Saturn Bowling, the fifth film from singular French director Patricia Mazuy, heightens the shock value. Although more or less a familiar grisly serial killer thriller formatted with unexpected beats, Mazuy seems to be embarking on a new path of narrative fascination following her dark, masculine-centered drama Paul Sanchez is Back! (2018) also scripted by Yves Thomas, which similarly focused on a male antagonist.…...
Every once in a while, a film comes along which conceptualizes brutality so shocking and vile it conjures a visceral reaction among the most desensitized of audience members. That it’s a moment contained in Saturn Bowling, the fifth film from singular French director Patricia Mazuy, heightens the shock value. Although more or less a familiar grisly serial killer thriller formatted with unexpected beats, Mazuy seems to be embarking on a new path of narrative fascination following her dark, masculine-centered drama Paul Sanchez is Back! (2018) also scripted by Yves Thomas, which similarly focused on a male antagonist.…...
- 9/28/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Dark Star Pictures has come on board to release Patricia Mazuy’s “Saturn Bowling” (“Bowling Saturne”) in the U.S.
The deal, brokered by Paris-based sales agent Totem Films, marks the first U.S. deal for a film by Mazuy, despite the filmmaker having received a retrospective at the Lincoln Center in 2019.
The pic is written by Yves Thomas and Mazuy. It is produced by Patrick Sobelman. The cast includes Arieh Worthalter, Achille Reggiani, Y Lan Lucas and Leila Muse.
“Bowling Saturne” follows police officer Guillaume, who inherits his family’s bowling business following his father’s death. He decides to give it to his troubled half-brother, Armand, but Guillaume is later distracted from his work in investigating a series of murders by his sibling’s unusual management of the business along with a team of hunters and an environmental activist.
Describing the film, Mazuy said: “The adventure of the...
The deal, brokered by Paris-based sales agent Totem Films, marks the first U.S. deal for a film by Mazuy, despite the filmmaker having received a retrospective at the Lincoln Center in 2019.
The pic is written by Yves Thomas and Mazuy. It is produced by Patrick Sobelman. The cast includes Arieh Worthalter, Achille Reggiani, Y Lan Lucas and Leila Muse.
“Bowling Saturne” follows police officer Guillaume, who inherits his family’s bowling business following his father’s death. He decides to give it to his troubled half-brother, Armand, but Guillaume is later distracted from his work in investigating a series of murders by his sibling’s unusual management of the business along with a team of hunters and an environmental activist.
Describing the film, Mazuy said: “The adventure of the...
- 10/24/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The Cnc will also be supporting films by Antonin Peretjatko, Claire Simon, Pablo Berger and the duo Verena Paravel - Lucien Castaing-Taylor, as well as three feature debuts. Ten projects were selected at the 4th 2020 session of the Cnc’s advance on receipts: seven at the second committee, and three at the first. Standing out among them is Les jeunes filles à la peau blanche dans la nuit by Patricia Mazuy. This will be the 5th fiction feature from the director, after Peaux de vaches, The King's Daughters, Of Women and Horses (Piazza Grande in Locarno in 2011) and Paul Sanchez is back! (2018). The pitch for this new film, co-written by the director with Yves Thomas, goes as follows: One night,...
- 10/30/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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