With: Jérémie Renier (Captain Antarès Bonassieu), Kévin Azaïs (William Denis), Swann Arlaud (Jérémie Lernowski), Marc Robert (Jean-Baptiste Frering), Finnegan Oldfield (Patrick Mercier), Clément Bresson (Etienne Baxer), Sâm Mirhosseini (Khalil Khan)
Director: Clément Cogitore
Producers: Jean-Christophe Reymond
Production co: Kazak Productions, Tarantula
Screenplay: Clément Cogitore, Thomas Bidegain
Photography: Sylvain Verdet
Editor: Isabelle Manquillet
Music: Eric Bentz, François-Eudes Chanfrault
REVIEWS

“The ingenious conceit of Neither Heaven Nor Earth, a critical success at Cannes 2015, is to transform the Afghan battlefield – dust and boredom and jolts of explosive violence – into the backdrop for a metaphysical thriller.

Jérémie Renier stars as a French army commander who begins to lose the loyalty of his company, as well as his sanity, when soldiers start mysteriously disappearing one by one.  Rarely is the madness of war conveyed on screen with such simmering tension and existential fear.  Rarely, too, is the ignorance and mistrust between cultures – are the shepherd villagers innocent civilians or Taliban spies? – limned with such poetic insight.” — New Directors/New Films 2016.

“A contemporary ghost story that’s both unabashedly mystical and thrillingly pulpy.”

— Ela Bittencourt, Slant Magazine
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Queenstown
Tuesday, 3 July, 8:15pm

Hamilton
Monday, 9 July, 8:00pm

Nelson
Thursday, 19 July, 6:00pm

Carterton
Friday, 3 August, 7:30pm

Palmerston North
Monday, 13 August, 6:00pm

Tauranga
Wednesday, 22 August, 6:15pm

Whanganui
Monday, 3 September, 7:00pm

Canterbury
Monday, 10 September, 7:30pm

Dunedin
Wednesday, 19 September, 7:30pm

New Plymouth
Wednesday, 26 September, 6:00pm
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