Grand Jeté

Nominee
Panorama Audience Award
Berlin International Film Festival
Bold and troubling...boundary-pushing subject matter and polarizing talking points.
-- Screen Daily

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Grand Jeté

Nadja (Sarah Nevada Grether) is an aspiring ballerina with the scars to prove it. A masochistic pursuit of her dream career has left her body battered, a map of the tumultuous torture dancers withstand on a daily basis. Working now as a dance instructor for children, rather than as the dancer she always wanted to be, she decides to visit the adult son she has been estranged from since he was a child. Mario (Emil von Schönfels), raised by his grandmother, is similarly focused on his physical form and the abuse it takes to earn the physique he craves. When Nadja shows up at Mario's doorstep, it starts a relationship that is as sensitive as it is taboo shattering, placing Grand Jeté alongside other provocative European films like Christophe Honoré's Ma mère and Bertrand Blier's Beau Pere. Isabelle Stever's film, a selection of the Berlin International Film Festival, is a powerful character drama about familial boundaries and the lack thereof, with sensational (and daring) performances from Grether and Schönfels and striking, intimate cinematography by Constantin Campean.

"A hypnotic deconstruction of the human psyche." -ICS

"One of the most fearless, worthy, and controversial films of 2022." -C7nema

Official Selection: Berlinale Panorama 2022
Not Rated
Genre
Drama, Women and Film
Runtime
105
Language
German
Director
Isabelle Stever
Writer(s)
Anna Melikova (screenplay), Anke Stelling (novel)
Cast
Sarah Nevada Grether, Emil von Schönfels
Awards:
Nominee, Panorama Audience Award, Berlin International Film Festival

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