She is Conann

Nominee
Queer Palm
Cannes Film Festival
'She Is Conann' is an invitation to put decorum aside and savour a trippy filmmaker with an appetite for cult-classic cinema and transgressive art.
-- Screen Daily

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She is Conann

In a barbaric fantasy sci-fi trip through time, sword-and-sorcery mythology is bent, fractured, and gender-swapped by master visionary Bertrand Mandico in his third feature epic. Six lives, six eras, and six deaths mark Conann’s poetic journey through different incarnations and lesbian loves. Guiding Conann through her many epic lives is Elina Löwensohn as Rainer, a Cerberus of many otherworldly dimensions whose paparazzi camera sees all. The perversity of The Wild Boys and the hero’s journey of After Blue come together in this even greater handmade homage as Mandico ropes in influences as lush as Fellini Satyricon, The Night Porter, The Hunger, and Fassbinder’s entire oeuvre to craft a moving portrait of a warrior trying to find her place while outside of space, time, and meaning. This official selection of Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Fantastic Fest, and Sitges "thrives on its own bizarre extravagance as it pushes the limits of substance and style" (Collider).

"Mandico takes the figure of a sword and sorcery hero––obviously interested in his pulp magazine origins––and fashions a timeless, iterative narrative of phantasmagoric fluidity… and glitter." -The Film Stage
Not Rated
Genre
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Women and Film, LGBTQ+
Runtime
105
Language
French, German, English
Director
Bertrand Mandico
Writer(s)
Bertrand Mandico
Cast
Elina Löwensohn, Christa Théret, Sandra Parfait, Julia Riedler, Claire DuBurcq, Agata Buzek, Nathalie Richard, Françoise Brion
Awards:
Nominee, Queer Palm, Cannes Film Festival

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