Cinema. "The Plague": in His First Feature Film, Charlie Polinger Explores Body Transformations During Adolescence
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The American director and screenwriter signs an inspired genre film taking place in a water-polo summer camp More than a year after his presentation on the Croisette, in the section Un certain
The American director and screenwriter filmed the dynamics, the rejections and the connivances that act within a group of young boys gathered in a summer camp.
In a water-polo camp, young Eli, suffering from a skin disease, is the target of all the jokes and the worst exclusion. This is what the first feature film by Charlie Polinger tells us about "The Plague".
Psychological thriller drawing on horror cinema codes, The Plague strongly denounces the harassment between young teenagers.
Arriving from Boston, the young Ben (Everett Blungck) joins the water-polo group and tries to integrate into it. Grand Prix Festival de Deauville, Charlie Polinger's film evokes the harassment and wickedness of a group of boys in water-polo internship. An almost huis-clos between pool, dormitory, changing rooms... "For me, the age of 12 was more like a hell of anxiety," confided director Charlie Polinger at the Cannes Film Festival last year whe…
In a sports summer camp, 12-13-year-old boys replay cruelly, His Majesty flies. Charlie Polinger observes with acute harassment, shame, conformism and adolescent masculinity, carried by striking young actors.
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