Philippe Lesage's second feature film The Demons opens with a movement from Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia" which is a rather great encapsulation of the movie which begins with a beautiful easy going introduction which crescendos carefully before exploding and then concluding as quietly as it began.
The Demons starts with an introduction to a group of children in an early summer setting. We are lulled into the normalcy of life with observations of school activities, first crushes, bullying (some instances of this more dramatic than others) and afternoons at the pool. Lesage captures all of this with the keen eye of a documentarian; observations of events that are generally overlooked by most filmmakers but which are essential to Lesage's storytelling.
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The Demons starts with an introduction to a group of children in an early summer setting. We are lulled into the normalcy of life with observations of school activities, first crushes, bullying (some instances of this more dramatic than others) and afternoons at the pool. Lesage captures all of this with the keen eye of a documentarian; observations of events that are generally overlooked by most filmmakers but which are essential to Lesage's storytelling.
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- 12/9/2015
- QuietEarth.us
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