Neither Heaven nor Earth
Effectively spooky, moves beyond the clichés of combat into troubling political and methaphysical territory.
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Neither Heaven nor Earth
(The Wakhan Front)
Afghanistan, 2014. As the withdrawal of French troops approaches, Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antares and his men's determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, his soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear. In his first feature, Clément Cogitore transforms the dusty Afghan landscape into a setting for a breathtaking metaphysical thriller, recalling the eerie mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock and the paranoid horror of John Carpenter’s The Thing.
"...gripping mash-up of LONE SURVIVOR, THE THING, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT that pits a squad of French soldiers against a supernatural menace far deadlier than the Taliban." – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
"Clement Cogitore's striking debut puts an inventive fresh, uncanny spin on the War in Afghanistan soldier study." – Guy Lodge, Variety
FESTIVALS
Winner! Best First Feature - COLCOA, L.A.
Winner! Special Jury Prize - Sarasota Film Festival
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection - New Directors New Films
"...gripping mash-up of LONE SURVIVOR, THE THING, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT that pits a squad of French soldiers against a supernatural menace far deadlier than the Taliban." – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
"Clement Cogitore's striking debut puts an inventive fresh, uncanny spin on the War in Afghanistan soldier study." – Guy Lodge, Variety
FESTIVALS
Winner! Best First Feature - COLCOA, L.A.
Winner! Special Jury Prize - Sarasota Film Festival
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection - New Directors New Films
Genre
Thriller,
War,
Fantasy,
Mystery
Runtime
100
Language
French
Director
Clément Cogitore
Cast
Jérémie Renier,
Kévin Azais,
Marc Robert,
Swann Arlaud
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Prize Critics Week ~ Fipresci Award, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Queer Palm, Cannes Film Festival
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
Most war movies try to shock us with hard, brutal, tangible, sick-making images, demanding that we look at the visible proof — the blood and guts and other gore — that results from guns and bombs. In the searching, cogent ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth,’ director Clément Cogitore examines the horrors ...
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