Barrage – Laura Schroeder

Synopsis

After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, who is being brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth.

Alba is cold and distant towards this stranger who shows up unexpectedly in her life, and so is Elisabeth, keen to keep her protégée to herself.

One day, Catherine cannot take it anymore. She “kidnaps” Alba and takes her on a trip to a lake up north. So begins an unsettling journey into the puzzling and complex world of motherly love.

Info

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Director
Laura Schroeder
Writers
Laura Schroeder &
Marie Nimier
Producers
Pol Cruchten
Jeanne Geiben
& Vincent Quénault
(Red Lion, LU)
With
Lolita Chammah
Thémis Pauwels
Isabelle Huppert
Elsa Houben
Charles Müller
Marja-Leena Juncker
Luc Schiltz
Director of Photography
Hélène Louvart
Co-producers
Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre (MACT Productions, FR)
Sebastian Schelenz & Sebastien Delloye (Entre Chien Et Loup, BE)
Production Designer
Christina Schaffer
International sales
Luxbox
Editor
Damien Keyeux
Supported by
Filmfund Luxembourg (LU)
The Tax Shelter of the Federal Government of Belgium
Wallonia (BE)
Original Soundtrack
Petra Jean Phillipson
Production manager
Nadine Chaussonière
Costume Designer
Uli Simon
Make-up
Katja Reinert

Festivals

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Berlinale, Forum, February 2017
Bafici Buenos Aires, Panorama, April 2017
New Horizons IFF, Wroclaw, August 2017
Palm Springs IFF, Awards Buzz Competition, January 2018
Vilnius IFF, Festival’s Favourites, March 2017
Jeonju IFF, Competition, April 2017
Rio de Janeiro IFF, Competition, Octobre 2017
Chicago IFF, World Cinema, Octobre 2017
Torino IFF, Competition, Novembre 2017
Französische Filmtage Tübingen, Competition, Novembre 2017
Cinemania Montreal, Novembre 2017
Espoo IFF, May 2018
Selected for TorinoFilmLab 2010, Atelier Grand Nord 2014, TorinoFilmLab Coming Soon 2016

Press

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Intimate and well-played drama.
Hollywood Reporter
What strikes you about Barrage is its over-powering rawness, both in its presentation, highly-skilled direction and superbly crafted acting.
The Hollywood News
A somber and exquisitely sensitive story about three generations of women who risk bleeding out when one of them opens an old wound.
Indiewire
Laura Schroeder depicts a trianglular mother-daughter relationship with consummate intelligence, conveying the fluidity of our deepest emotions.
Cineuropa
This gentle tale of how three generations of women deal with brutal emotions offers a beautiful, quiet complexity.
The Upcoming
Ce deuxième long métrage marque la véritable apparition de la réalisatrice Laura Schroeder.
Remarquablement porté par ses actrices, en particulier Lolita Chammah, le film de Laura Schroeder transforme un drame familial en jeu tendu et intense.
Slate
Habemus metteuse en scène ! « Barrage », premier « vrai » long-métrage de la réalisatrice luxembourgeoise Laura Schroeder, est un changement de paradigme pour le cinéma luxembourgeois : un film d’auteur jouissant d’un langage cinématographique conséquent et original.
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