OUT OF THE WORLD
Now in theaters - January 19, 2022
2022
Genre : : thriller
Duration : 1h33
Directors : Marc Fouchard
Producer : Dacor Production
Country : France
Synopsis : Leo is a driver and lives alone in his car. He only opens up to the world through his music. One day, Léo drives Amélie, a client like no other, a dancer and deaf and yet receptive to the compositions he plays in his sedan. Leo seems seduced by this woman, like him, out of the world. Amélie is also attracted to the dark Leo. But what she doesn't know is that Leo is a terrible predator...
FESTIVALS:
Glasgow Festival (2021)
Cognac Festival (2020)
Shanghai International Film Festival (2021)
Soundscreen Film Festival (2021)
THE ROOMS of JANUARY 19, 2022:
CGR Colosseum - LE MANS
CGR Tours Center - TOURS
CGR Evry - EVRY
Cinema Le Foyer - PONT DE ROIDE
CinemaScoop - LE CHAMBON SUR LIGNON
Cinema M - MOURENX
Cinema Aquitaine - HAGETMAU
Cinema Le Renoir - BISCAROSSE
The paintings of Moun - SAINT PIERRE DU MONT
Cinema Eden - LOUHANS
Cinema L'Eden - MONTMORENCY
Press articles
20 MINUTES
Remember the name of Kevin Mischel, already seen in divine And Robbers, the series. How this comedian becomes a serial killer taxi driver in out of the world of the French director Marc Fouchard allows him to climb an additional level in his career. " He is literally possessed by the character he embodies", observes the director who had already directed him for Break, in the press kit.
The main character of the film, a brutal man who takes refuge in his musical compositions, lets himself be bewitched when he meets a deaf dancer (Aurélia Poirier, magnetic). The relationship between a shy boy, capable of appalling acts of violence and a young woman who cannot hear the music that is written are not well under way.
Fans of horror movies are familiar with portraits of creepy killers whose Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) by John McNaughton, is an emblematic example. out of the world does not reach the virtuosity of this brilliant work and does not claim to do so. But the choice to deliver a film whose dialogues are reduced to the strict minimum and where the music signed Cyesm plunges the viewer into the head of the killer is very judicious. Marc Fouchard has made the most of reduced means to highlight Kevin Mischel's performance in the skin of an assassin whose humanity he underlines despite the atrocious acts he commits.
This immersive experience naturally takes its place in French horror films that combine genre cinema and auteur films. out of the world constitutes a curiosity, sometimes a little clumsy but always fascinating. To discover.
CAROLINE LIFE
THE FANTASTIC SCREEN
Léo is a VTC driver for lack of being able to live from his passion, the music. But he's also a compulsive serial killer. who finds his prey in the back seat of his car or in the hazard of his nocturnal wanderings. These murders allow him to release all the aggressiveness that he has in him and that he cannot manage otherwise, between his solitary life in his vehicle and his visits to his mother interned in a psychiatric hospital and walled in his silence. But everything seems to change for him when he meets Amélie, a deaf dancer who, however, is sensitive to the pulsations of her compositions. But how do you approach a young woman when you're unable to communicate?
The second feature film by Marc Fouchard, after the romantic comedy against a backdrop of break dancing Break, again gives pride of place to music and dance, but intersects these almost dreamlike sequences and contemplatives of bloody murders perpetrated by a psychopath with angelic gaze. We immediately think of On my lips, then to maniac by William Lustig who also spoke of this impossible link what is the killer of women looking for? The film is based on shoulders of actor Kevin Mischel, whose performance is impeccable, but the whole lacks a hint of originality or surprise to make this horrifying thriller a truly experience striking. out of the world, where the fate of two people living next door others, manages to be moving, without departing from an impression somewhat depressing nihilistic.
YANN LEBECQUE
THE NEW REPUBLIC
out of the world by Marc Fouchard was presented at the festivals of Shanghai, Ravenna, Glasgow and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Polar Cognac Festival. Dark thriller, it is transcended by the interpretation of Kevin Mischel.
From his mother (Dominique Frot), who was one of the most beautiful voices in song, Léo inherited a taste for music and a severe fart in helmet. As the title suggests, he lives outside the world, in this sedan which he uses to carry out his job as a VTC driver, but also as an apartment, as a composition studio. It is doubtless from his mother also that his inability to conclude with women comes to him: the palliative to his virility is knife in hand that he finds it.
A stunning composition
Schizophrenic, solitary, Leo takes a liking to Amélie (Aurélia Poirier who also plays the role of Amélie's twin sister, Hélène) a young girl whose deafness has also placed her on the margins of society. That's what he likes about her, besides the fact that she reacts to the songs they compose. But Leo's demons have invested him far too much for him to know and want to resist them.
Glazed with great staging ideas (like making us live in immersion the panic of a victim locked in Leo's trunk) out of the world is a film stretched on a wire between grace and shivers. Marc Fouchard, who was a dancer before catching the movie bug, previously directed Break already with Kevin Mischel who, for his part, has followed a somewhat reverse loop path: theater studies, break then contemporary dance (among others for Kader Attou) before returning to the game (we saw it, among others, in Robbers And Divine). He is possessed by his role, places dizzying energy and depth in his playing and the result is stunning. Marc Fouchard also took advantage of Kevin Mischel's past as a dancer for a very nice scene with Amélie in a parking lot.
out of the world finally knows moments of sweetness, particularly when the beautiful face of Genevieve Casile as a benevolent client of Leo.
JACQUES BRINAIRE
THE PARISIAN
"Out of this world": chilling
Asocial and almost mute, Léo, a VTC driver who lives in his car, only has a passion for music. Affected by murderous impulses, he murders young women, taken at random. One day he meets Amélie, a deaf dancer... Several films have already tried to slip into the mind of a serial killer. Kevin Mischel, himself a dancer at the base, composes a Leo who, although he is well made of his person, avoids social relations as much as possible and lives totally, as the title says, "out of the world". The feature film also offers very beautiful images, and some dazzling scenes, such as that of the attack on a victim at his home, with an unexpected outcome. But the delicate subject prohibits any form of empathy or immersion and, in the end, the film remains chilling, in both form and content.
Editor's rating: 3/5
FRENCH UNIFICATION
out of the world is a good French genre film that focuses on a particular serial killer.
The screenplay by director Marc Fouchard presents a man living on the margins of society. He lives in his car which he uses as a VTC driver. It is during his various wanderings that he identifies his victims and executes them with great violence. However, he will find himself attracted by a young deaf dancer and the two characters will begin an astonishing, and dangerous, ballet.
The staging closely follows the main character. This one, a silent man, often economical with his movements, is wonderfully played by Kevin Mischel who manages to make him fascinating, while he portrays a terrible monster.
Indeed, in this astonishing urban romance, it is a strange beast who meets his beauty. But this one is much more dangerous than the monsters which have fangs and teeth and the very dark tone of the film does not always light up during their fleeting moments of encounter.
It is Aurélia Poirier who embodies the young girl. She was trained in sign language by a real deaf and mute dancer. She is therefore particularly credible in the role of a luminous and airy character whose warmth and generosity can help the main character to extricate himself from the dark depths where he finds himself.
It is necessary to point out the marvelous danced passages. First of all the one executed by Aurélia Poirier which is really superb and especially the passage with the two main protagonists taking place in a parking lot presenting the visualization of a fantasized moment, which is absolutely beautiful, perfectly measured and impeccably interpreted by two actors who have a real practice of dance in their career.
The work is a dark thriller that shows in a sometimes clinical way the behavior of an individual living on the margins of society and who has his own rules. The character is really not endearing and it's a great tour de force to make him captivating and to hope for him a redemption allowing him to transform himself.
A large part of the plot takes place in the car and its wanderings in the city of Le Havre and its suburbs are perfectly rendered. If the space in the cabin is limited, we never have a feeling of claustrophobia thanks to the beautiful photography of Pascal Boude And especially to the imposing interpretation of Kevin Mischel who manages to occupy all the space he has at his disposal.
Some passages are really very violent and often contrast with more peaceful moments. There is a nice touch of suspense in this work which never falls into clichés and does not necessarily take the path we see it take.
out of the world is a good film noir that takes the viewer into a spiral of darkness and allows us to get close to the psyche of a terrible killer. With a chilling story allowing an interesting mix between thriller, psychological work and romance, a precise realization and a very beautiful interpretation, the feature film remains in the memory for a long time and no longer makes people look innocuous in the same way.
Raw and punchy.
Rating: 3.5/5
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