Icarus Films will be teaming up with France’s leading film producer and distributor, Distrib Films, on Mar. 16 for the domestic DVD debut of director Jézabel Marques’ bittersweet comedy of deception, Sol.
Solange Corthis (Chantal Lauby — The Gilded Cage, Serial (Bad) Weddings, Leave Your Hands on My Hips) has been living for years in Buenos Aires as a tango dancer by the same of Sol. She has gained fame, but there is a loss in her life that grows each day … to the point that she must return to Paris to fix it!
So, what is eating at her? What is so important that she would give up her fame, her career, one that she has devoted her life to … to the exclusion of everything else?
She has a lover as well, Jacques (Serge Bagdassarian — Midnight in Paris), but as the days go by, she finds that his companionship and her career are not enough. So off she goes.
We learn that Sol abandoned her own son and family in favor of her dancing career. Her son married, had a son of his own and has now all but disappeared from the scene (perhaps it is a family thing). But her grandson, Jo (Giovanni Pucci), is now seven-years old and she knows of him and his mother, Eva (Camille Chamoux — Trainee Day, Family Heist, Love is Dead), who live in Paris.
It is a simple plan, fly to Paris, go to her estranged step-daughter’s home and reintroduce herself into the life of her grandson. And then everything will be wonderful. The only problem is, Sol panics and instead of saying “I’m Jo’s grandmother,” she tells Eva that she is, instead, visiting Paris and is interested in renting the next-door apartment. Moves in and wings it from there.
Didn’t Sir Walter Scott nail Sol’s dilemma with his verse, “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive” … Sol certainly has weaved herself a mighty tangled web. The question is, how long can she keep the deception up?
Sol is in French with English subtitles.
In other release news from Icarus Films this past week, Mar. 9 marks the DVD debut of documentary filmmaker Matt Kliegman’s odd, but true tale, Markie in Milwaukee.
Markie Wenzel is a hulk of a man, coming in at seven feet in height. Married, with three kids. He is also a minister at the local Baptist church. And then one day, Markie decided that he wanted to live his life as a woman.
Kliegman, working with ten years of cinema verité footage has assembled a compelling look at the life of a tortured individual. We hook up with Markie in 2013, see where he/her is at — a seven-foot-tall TSA agent (seems almost comical) — jumps back to 2008 (the beginning) and then comes forward in time as Markie has had second thoughts and is trying oh so very hard to re-connect with his family and all that he/she has lost.
Markie in Milwaukee is a painful, poignant story … all the more so because it is true.
Bonus features include a Q&A session with filmmaker Matt Kliegman.
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