Préjudice
Antoine Cuypers
During a family meal, 30-something Cédric, who still livesw with his parents, learns that his sister is expecting a child. While everyone is happy about this news, it gives him feeling that will soon become furious. He tries to show everyone else the prejudice he feels he has always been a victim of.
Between unspoken resentment and paranoia, revolt and hypocrisy, how far will a family go to keep its balance?
Between unspoken resentment and paranoia, revolt and hypocrisy, how far will a family go to keep its balance?
With : Nathalie Baye, Arno Hintjens, Thomas Blanchard, Ariane Labed, Eric Caravaca, Cathy Min Jung, Arthur Bols, Julien Baumgartner
Screenplay : Antoine Cuypers, Antoine Wauters
Image : Frédéric Noirhomme
Sound : Quentin Collette, Nicolas Tran-Trong, François Dumont, Michaël Sauvage
Editing : Elif Uluengin
Music : Ernst Reijseger, Francesco Pastacaldi
Screenplay : Antoine Cuypers, Antoine Wauters
Image : Frédéric Noirhomme
Sound : Quentin Collette, Nicolas Tran-Trong, François Dumont, Michaël Sauvage
Editing : Elif Uluengin
Music : Ernst Reijseger, Francesco Pastacaldi
Distribution: Les Films du Losange
www.filmsdulosange.fr
www.filmsdulosange.fr
Born in Liège in 1984, Antoine Cuypers is a Belgian scriptwriter and director. After graduating in journalism at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, he moved into directing in 2009 with Autonomie de la volonté, his first self-produced short. This silent, choreographed film won the Grand Prix at the Molodist Film Festival. In 2012, A New Old Story, his last short film with Arno, was nominated at the Magrittes for Belgian Cinema and had great success on the festival circuit. In Octobr 2015, Préjudice opened the 30th edition of the Namur FIFF and was released in Belgian cinemas at the same time, receiving a positive welcome from critics and audiences alike.
“With Préjudice I wanted to explore what makes the identity of a family, with the rapports de force which exist between the individuals that make it up. Along with this I have wondered about the notion of normality for a long time: where is the norm, where and when do deviation appear? Then there was the enclosed space and the constraints of tragedy made it possible to give a dense and symbolic treatment of the characters, of the links binding them. And all of this without necessarily taking sides so as to respect the complexity which governs human relationships, allowing the viewer the freedom to question and to find their own answers”.
“With Préjudice I wanted to explore what makes the identity of a family, with the rapports de force which exist between the individuals that make it up. Along with this I have wondered about the notion of normality for a long time: where is the norm, where and when do deviation appear? Then there was the enclosed space and the constraints of tragedy made it possible to give a dense and symbolic treatment of the characters, of the links binding them. And all of this without necessarily taking sides so as to respect the complexity which governs human relationships, allowing the viewer the freedom to question and to find their own answers”.