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Bas-Fonds Now Available on Vyer Films in India

On the outskirts of civilization, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a complex game of love and domination.

Bas-Fonds premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2010, where Le Besco was nominated for a Golden Leopard, screened at the Oldenburg Film Festival, where it was nominated for the German Independence Audience Award, and was the opening night of the 2011 Film Comment Selects series. Scott Foundas, writing for Film Comment, said the film “extends to the viewer a feeling of being pulled so deeply inside this alternate universe that we ourselves lose all sense of which way is up,” and Andrew Schenker in Slant Magazine praised Le Besco’s directorial style, writing it “ensures that we get just as much information as we need without enough lingering camera gaze to invite gawking.” Its release on Vyer Films marks the first time the film has ever been available in India.

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‘Exit Elena’ A Brilliant, Deceptively Simple Portrait of Multi-Generational Malaise

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‘Exit Elena’ A Brilliant, Deceptively Simple Portrait of Multi-Generational Malaise

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Exit Elena Now Available on Vyer Films

With no place to call home, 19-year-old Elena takes a job as a live-in aide. She finds herself thrust into the middle of a family in crisis: all the things that go on between a father, grandmother, mother, and cat. Eventually, Elena strikes something of a balance though… That is, until the prodigal son returns home. Placing fictional characters alongside real people, ‘Exit Elena’ is shot through with all the rough edges inherent to family life and home movie form – in short, it’s a dark comedy.

Exit Elena, directed by Nathan Silver, will be screening this week at the 2013 Vancouver International Film Festival. It has previously screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Viennale, BAFICI, IndieLisboa, IFFBoston, Cucalorus, and the Woodstock Film Festival, where it won an Honorable Mention. Hope Dickson Leach from Filmmaker Magazine called it, “An exquisite gem of a movie,” Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times described it as “Whisper-quiet and weirdly endearing,” and IndieWire hailed it as “Beautifully observed and charming.”

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Putty Hill

The questions the interviewer asks, the setting, Jenny's breakdown with her father, their conversation driving away from Cory's house...

What sticks with you the most from the film? What did you think of  it? What questions do you find yourself asking now that it's over?