The Invader ( L'envahisseur )

The Invader (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L'envahisseur
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
95 min + 39 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Nicolas Provost

Written By:
Giordano Gederlini
Nicolas Provost

Actors:
Isaka Sawadogo ..... Amadou / Obama
Stefania Rocca ..... Agnès de Yael
Serge Riaboukine ..... Jean-Pierre, le passeur
Dieudonné Kabongo ..... Omar
John Flanders ..... Dr. Charles de Yael
Tibo Vandenborre ..... Kris
Ken Kelountang Ndiaye ..... Sioka
Bernard Van Vooren ..... Le clochard
Jean-Louis Froment ..... L'homme qui achète le bois
Laurence César ..... Caissière épicerie
Katsuko Nakamura ..... L'amie d'Omar
Toni d'Antonio ..... Le taxi
James Kazama ..... Liong Bing
Carole Weyers ..... Kate
Hannelore Knuts ..... La naturiste

Synopsis:

The story opens with the camera fixed on the vagina of a beautiful blonde woman, sunbathing nude on a Southern European beach. It pulls back, taking in the scene of vacation frolickers until we spy Amadou (Issaka Sawadogo), an immigrant from Africa literally washing up on shore. After a hallucinatory sequence that sends Amadou from the beach to the city (Brussells), the film proper begins. Amadou is now part of an illegal labor force contracted out for day labor jobs by an imperious mid-level crime boss. An altercation with the boss sends Amadou on the street, without a job, money or papers. Spying a beautiful blonde executive, played by the stunning Stefania Rocca, he uses his considerable charm, verbal dexterity and sexual persuasiveness to insinuate himself into her life. Soon, though, his own anxieties, his resentments and feelings of being out of place, send him on a path to self-destruction.

Amadou, a strong and charismatic African man, is washed up on a beach in southern Europe. Fate leads him to Brussels where, full of optimism, he tries to make a better life for himself. Exploited by traffickers, his daily life is slowly drained of hope, until he meets Agnès, a beautiful and brilliant businesswoman. She is seduced by his charm and force of character, while he projects all his hope and dreams onto her. The illusion quickly shatters, and Agnès breaks all contact with Amadou, who little by little sinks into destructive violence, struggling with his inner demons.

Provocative in its socio, sexual and racial politics, The Invader makes us watch as an initially honorable African man gradually implodes when the shiny images of Western culture are dangled before him. The film plays with our sympathies, and our stereotypes, and it does so with a sleekly absorbing visual style. In the below interview, I talk with Provost about his art background, his move to feature filmmaking, and the archetypes he evokes in this picture.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 05 January, 2013.

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