Cleopatra Music & Films, with sales and distribution
expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has targeted May 9 for the Blu-ray
debut of French actress-turned-filmmaker
Sophie Blondy’s Starlight.
Fellini would admire this one for its visual style and David
Lynch would be right at home watching this metaphorical tale of comedy and
tragedy as one and the same — a two-headed coin, so to speak, which can be
flipped this way and that throughout eternity, but the result will always come
out the same.
On a bleak seaside landscape a circus troupe has set up
their tent. They are in something of a
purgatory, where few people visit their performances and they seemingly have no
will to move on.
The proceedings are managed by the ringmaster, Heroy (Tchéky
Karyo), a tyrant, who is half-mad. He
lusts after Angèle (Natacha Régnier), the apply named and very
beautiful wife of the circus clown, Elliot (Denis Lavant), and spends his time
planning different ways to destroy their relationship and have her for himself.
Heroy prompts the
well-endowed Zohra (Béatrice Dalle), who is something of a circus gypsy,
to seduce Elliott as one of his schemes … she is a circus “creature” in the
purest sense; a sideshow all onto herself and a more than willing
participant. And if these characters
were not odd enough, even in a dream world, hovering over all of this is the
mute La Conscience (played by none other than Iggy Pop).
Starlight — strange, surreal and visually gorgeous
(cinematography by Nathalie Durand — Sky, Blame it on Fidel) — is
presented in French with English subtitles.
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