DIAMANT BRUT | Französischer Filmclub - Black Box im Filmmuseum Düsseldorf

DIAMOND BRUT

F 2024 - 103 min - OmU - digitalDCP - FSK 12 R/B: Agathe Riedinger - C: Noé Bach - D: Malou Khebizi, Idir Azougli, Andréa Bescond and others

Liane is 19 years old and dreams of becoming famous through reality TV and social media. Episodic casting situations, everyday moments and performative self-presentations are shown. Riedinger's feature film debut portrays a young woman whose body is simultaneously capital, a projection surface and a venue for social expectations.

The film follows Liane without judging her; there is no moral superiority. The camera is close and moving, but at the same time it does not objectify. Instead, the film manages to develop a visual sensibility between glamor and rawness. Riedinger's female perspective is expressed here as a right to ambivalence: Liane is vulnerable and calculating, tender and aggressive, naive and strategic. In its aesthetic consistency and empathic gaze, the film is a contemporary coming-of-age drama that poses questions about female agency in the age of visual overproduction.

Introduction: Alice Girin (Institut français)

In cooperation with the Institut français Düsseldorf.