Ultranova (2005)

On the outskirts of the gray city of Liege Dimitri lives a sad life without friends and a believe in the future. Then he meets Cathy, and they form more than a normal friendship. But will she love him?

Director:

Bouli Lanners

Writers:

Bouli Lanners, Jean-François Lemaire

Stars:

Vincent Lecuyer, Marie du Bled, Hélène de Reymaeker

2 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Vincent Lecuyer	...	Dimitri
Marie du Bled	...	Jeanne
Hélène de Reymaeker	...	Cathy
Michaël Abiteboul	...	Phil
Vincent Belorgey	...	Verbrugghe
Ingrid Heiderscheidt	...	Serveuse enceinte
Alexandra Marotta	...	La 2e serveuse
Serge Larivière	...	L'auto-stoppeur
Georges Siatidis	...	Le responsable des plantes
Philippe Grand'Henry	...	L'homme au chien
Viviane Robert	...	La mère de Cathy
Philippe Ménage	...	Le moniteur de conduite-défense
Rudy Toorop	...	L'organiste au funérarium
Julie Ghanet	...	La veuve de Verbrugghe
Viviane Becha	...	La mère de Dimitri

Storyline

On the outskirts of the gray city of Liege Dimitri lives a sad life without friends and a believe in the future. Then he meets Cathy, and they form more than a normal friendship. But will she love him?

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Plot Keywords:

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Genres:

Drama

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Did You Know?

Soundtracks

In This Town
Performed by Rudy Toorop and Sacha Toorop

User Reviews

Bleak start of a funny everyday movie

Actoir Bouli Lanner's feature directorial debut is a quite under-spoken film, which tells the story about a disillusioned and lonely young man, Dimitri, living in the gray and tired outskirts of the Belgian city Liege. Dimitri works as an real estate agent, together with a couple of other men equally challenged with their own demons.

A chance meeting with Cathy at a neighbors party changes his life drastically, and this is the charm of the film, because it's introduction is quite hard to swallow. It's so bleak and boring, that I struggled with enjoying the movie at first.

The film is slow moving, and kept in very bleak colors, and I would have enjoyed that the color-palette had changed along with the story. It doesn't change, of course. Still the acting is good, and Dimitri changes drastically, even in his own eyes.

The film gives associations towards films by Aki Kaurismäki or Bruce MacDonald, or even Jim Jarmusch. Strange, under-spoken, everyday lives with occasionally odd happenings around situations we all know quite well.

Many good intentions, but still not on the level of the three mentioned masters of this art.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Belgium

Language:

French

Release Date:

27 April 2005 (Belgium)

Also Known As:

Ουλτρανόβα

Box Office

Budget:

EUR2,300,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Versus Production, Prime Time, SCOPE Invest

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1