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Although most of the film team of " La déesse des mouches à feu " unfortunately left the Berlinale already on Monday, I was pleased getting the opportunity to meet Robin L’Houmeau - who plays Keven in the movie - for an interview on Tuesday. I get a warm welcome when we meet at the CinemaxX and we are going to a little, cosy room in one of the Berlinale-buildings. After we chatted about the festival for a while Robin is ready for my questions. fGR: First of all, how did you come to the movie? Did you had a personal reason to be part of it? Robin: I came to the movie by an audition. Actually I auditioned for another character at first - for Pascal, Catherines first boyfriend in the movie. And then I ended up being chosen for the role of Keven. I hadn’t read the whole script before accepting, for me it was more a question of working with the director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette , cause I really like what she’s doing, her philosophy and her art of filmmaking. Also I knew the...

“She won’t notice, she just thinks about her own shitty life.” - a comment on "La déesse des mouches à feu" Catherine, called Cat, is sick of life with her parents. The fights - even on her birthday - a contest about her affection and the physical violence between them, day after day. At school she comes into contact with the drug mescaline, which allows her to escape her thoughts and problems. New friends, first love, acceptance and finally no more fights. For Cat, the mescaline scene seems to be a way out and she drifts into an addiction. La déesse des mouches à feu is driven by two lines that leading Cat's life. On the one hand there's the time with her new friends - often high - expressed through visual and acoustic metaphors of freedom. Skating sounds becoming waves, the lights of the city turning into fireflies. Using slow-motion and great camera work, the audience experiences Cats' drug inebriation and her sense of freedom. On the other hand, Cat'...

LA DÉESSE DES MOUCHES À FEU Goddess of the Fireflies Regie Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette Kanada 2020 Produktion Luc Vandal Buch Catherine Léger, nach dem Roman von Geneviève Pettersen Kamera Jonathan Decoste Montage Stéphane Lafleur Musik Mathieu Charbonneau mit Kelly Depeault, Éléonore Loiselle, Caroline Néron, Normand D‘Amour, Robin L’Houmeau, Noah Parker, Antoine Desrochers, Marine Johnson Französisch engl. UT · 105 Min. Sa. 22.02. 20:00 Uhr Urania So. 23.02. 20:00 Uhr Cubix 8 Di. 25.02. 13:30 Uhr CinemaxX 3 So. 01.03. 17:00 Uhr CinemaxX 1 Wenn Cat high ist, wird das Leben zu einem sanften poetischen Rauschen. Die erste Verliebtheit, der erste Sex und der erbarmungs- lose Scheidungskrieg der Eltern führen die 16-Jährige zu einem Wendepunkt im Leben. Im neuen Freundeskreis kommt sie mit der Droge Meskalin in Kontakt, die ekstatische Zustände auslöst und bald Cats Alltag bestimmt. Im Rausch befreit sie sich von den verbal und emotional brutalen Auseinandersetzungen ...