Jean-François lives with his twelve-year-old daughter Julyvonne somewhere in rural Québec, apart from everything. He works at a bowling alley and a motel; she stays at home, does not go to school and has almost no contact with the outside world. The father protects her by locking her in, and what is care to him becomes isolation for the girl. Then, over the winter, strange things start happening around them, and the closed world begins to crack. Denis Côté’s “Curling” (Canada 2010) tells this with Emmanuel Bilodeau and Philomène Bilodeau as father and daughter.

Côté dispenses with explanation and psychology; his film observes in long, cold shots and lets the uncanny sit alongside the everyday without reconciling the two. At the Locarno Film Festival in 2010 it won the awards for best director and best actor, and the Toronto festival included it among the ten best Canadian films of the year. “Curling” was shown at Around the World in 14 Films in Berlin in 2010.

CURLING

More films from 2010

10 TO 11

AUTOBIOGRAFIA LUI NICOLAE CEAUSESCU

BENDA BILILI!

I TRAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE TO, I COME BACK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

IM ALTER VON ELLEN

LEAP YEAR

LIFE DURING WARTIME

LITTLE BABY JESUS OF FLANDR

MUNDANE HISTORY

NE CHANGE RIEN

OF TIME AND THE CITY

SILENT SOULS

THE GREEN WAVE

VALHALLA RISING

WINTER VACATION