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Philippe Lesage

Comme le feu (Who by Fire)

Director Philippe Lesage Composer Cédric Dind-Lavoie Cast Noah Parker, Arieh Worthalter, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré
Edition 2024
161' - 2024 - Drama - Format: - - Dialogue: French

Deep in the Canadian wilderness, burning youthful desires and wounded adult egos clash in a vacation cabin-turned-cage. Unlike its company of characters, the camerawork remains restrained in Philippe Lesage’s coming-of-age Comme le feu, which in Berlin took home the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury.

17-year-old Jeff is invited by his friend Max to travel deep into the Canadian wilderness - but the main attraction for Jeff is not nature's beauty but Max's sister Aliocha with whom he is secretly in love. Their destination is at the remote lodge of a filmmaker (a role for multi-award-winning Franco-Belgian actor Arieh Worthalter), whose best work was created with Aliocha's father as screenwriter. Deep in the woods, old wounds between the once successful partners begin to fester and Jeff's dream vacation is in danger of turning into an awkward nightmare of blossoming love, or lust. With his third feature, director Philippe Lesage probes further into the youthful search for freedom, here truncated by fragile egos of grown men. Emotions swirl and tension rises in uneasy (dinner) scenes and long-held shots with nature as their indifferent witness. At the 2024 Berlinale, Comme le feu was awarded the Grand Prix by the international jury of the Generation 14plus competition.

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Credits

Directors

Philippe Lesage

Composers

Cédric Dind-Lavoie

Cast

Noah Parker, Arieh Worthalter, Aurélia Arandi-Longpré

Scenario

Philippe Lesage

Director of Photography

Balthazar Lab

Editors

Mathieu Bouchard-Malo

Producers

Galilé Marion-Gauvin

Production studios

Shellac Sud, Unité centrale

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Dialogue

French

Countries of production

Canada, France

Year

2024

Filmography

Philippe Lesage
Pourrons-nous vivre ensemble? (2006), The Heart that Beats (2010), How Can You Tell If the Litlle Fish Are Happy? (2010), Laylou (2012), Les démons (2015), Copenhague - A Love Story (2016), Elegy (short, 2018), Genèse (2018), Who by Fire (2024)

Technical Specs

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