CENDRE (CINDER) - TRAILER
- Trailer draft (2'05") of the feature film: "Cendre" ("Cinder") - Chinese Mandarin with English subtitles - Director/author/producer: Rene-Louis Cacciuttolo - First feature film / First cinematographic work - Genre: art house / drama; surrealistic, "noir fairy tale" - Synopsis: Cendre is a fragile and unstable young man, heavily influenced by his childhood's fairy tales. Living alone with his adopted sister, he pursues an obsessive quest to connect with the familiar characters of his memories, posting numerous ads to find the princess of his dreams. When he finally meets her, he realizes that his desires don’t conform to the stories he was read as a child. In an attempt to live his perfect love, lost between his emotions and the romance model he tries to conform to, he blurs reality through hallucinatory episodes which all relate to the tales he knows of : Blue Beard, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella.. But do the people interacting with Cendre even exist? Is his sister a fairy, or a witch? Who is he truly in love with? Cendre’s reality starts to disintegrate as some truths about himself that he was not even aware of grow out of proportion, threatening to destroy his carefully balanced world. - Short intro: « Cendre » is a surrealistic musical story, referring to different fairy tales we are familiar with, and which nurtured our childhood. The movie deals with various taboo issues such as fetish, incest and genre confusion It’s a psychological drama featuring a disturbed young man, who becomes the victim of his own fantasies. « Cendre » is the portrayal of a young man grasping for idealized romance and the painting of his failed attempts to reach adulthood while trying to conform to the norm.