Partisan

About the movie

The charismatic Gregori (Vincent Cassel) saunters into a hospital maternity ward and charms new mother Susanna. Eleven years later, she and her son Alexander live in Gregori’s closed community, sheltering vulnerable women and their brood in a haven isolated from the outside world. Alexander is Gregori’s prize pupil, eldest son, and star employee in the cottage industry—in which the kids are trained to run dangerous errands to provide for the group—but Gregori feels threatened by the boy’s inquisitive nature, struck by the fear that his child might not love him anymore. Meanwhile, Alexander begins to think for himself.
In his feature debut, Ariel Kleiman (a 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner for his short film Deeper Than Yesterday) crisply constructs a fascinating hidden world with stellar performances from Vincent Cassel and Jeremy Chabriel. In competition and winner of the Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2015.
“The arrival of a filmmaker to watch” – Variety"Gripping performances" – Screen Daily
“Beautifully shot by Germain McMicking“ – The Film Stage

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