Kévin Mischel in Out Of This World Photo: Bulldog Film Distribution
Marc Fouchard’s Out Of This World (Hors Du Monde) is one of those films which will blow you away when you first see it, and which you will hesitate to watch ever again. It’s the story of Léo (Kévin Mischel), a shy, emotionally damaged man who seems constantly uncomfortable with the world around him. He finds relief only in composing music, and in killing, which gives him inspiration – but this is very much unlike most serial killer films. There is no glamour, no sense of power, no sexual titillation – just sadness and brokenness. When Léo meets a young deaf woman, Amélie (Aurélia Poirier), who is a dancer and listens to his music by pressing her face against the door of his taxi, he is intrigued by her, and a tentative relationship begins – but can he control his compulsions?...
Marc Fouchard’s Out Of This World (Hors Du Monde) is one of those films which will blow you away when you first see it, and which you will hesitate to watch ever again. It’s the story of Léo (Kévin Mischel), a shy, emotionally damaged man who seems constantly uncomfortable with the world around him. He finds relief only in composing music, and in killing, which gives him inspiration – but this is very much unlike most serial killer films. There is no glamour, no sense of power, no sexual titillation – just sadness and brokenness. When Léo meets a young deaf woman, Amélie (Aurélia Poirier), who is a dancer and listens to his music by pressing her face against the door of his taxi, he is intrigued by her, and a tentative relationship begins – but can he control his compulsions?...
- 12/10/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The psychotic male with a poetic side is an old saw, but director Marc Fouchard brings some original and freshly disturbing touches to it
This artfully made, borderline-despicable French drama revolves around Leo (Kévin Mischel), a brooding, lonely taxi driver with cheekbones sharp as dressmaker’s shears, a secret talent for musical composition, romantic longings for pretty dancer Amélie (Aurélia Poirier) and the uncontrollable urge to kill women. Whether he actually does that or not isn’t clear at first, since scenes where he murders one woman turn out to be fantasies … or are they?
In a way, this film seems to not care either way because it’s essentially much more interested in Leo and his mental anguish: anguish that is seeded by a former chanteuse mother (Dominique Frot) who beat him when he was little. The whole handsome-tragic-murderer shtick is one we’ve seen before in an assortment of films,...
This artfully made, borderline-despicable French drama revolves around Leo (Kévin Mischel), a brooding, lonely taxi driver with cheekbones sharp as dressmaker’s shears, a secret talent for musical composition, romantic longings for pretty dancer Amélie (Aurélia Poirier) and the uncontrollable urge to kill women. Whether he actually does that or not isn’t clear at first, since scenes where he murders one woman turn out to be fantasies … or are they?
In a way, this film seems to not care either way because it’s essentially much more interested in Leo and his mental anguish: anguish that is seeded by a former chanteuse mother (Dominique Frot) who beat him when he was little. The whole handsome-tragic-murderer shtick is one we’ve seen before in an assortment of films,...
- 11/29/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Kevin Mischel, Aurélia Poirier, Jean-Louis Garçon, Tadrina Hocking | Written and Directed by Mark Fouchard
Written and directed by Mark Fouchard, Out of the World is a stylish French horror that centres on the connection formed between two people who struggle to communicate with the normal world. It’s variously known by its original title, Hors du Monde, and by a slightly tweaked translation, Out of this World.
Kevin Mischel stars as Leo, a gifted musician suffering from a severe past trauma. Unable to work as a composer, he makes a living as a taxi driver, but he struggles with extremely violent impulses and may, in fact, be a killer. However, when he picks up deaf dancer Amélie (Aurélia Poirier), something stirs in Leo, not least because she can sense something in his music that others can’t, and the pair begin a tentative relationship.
The relationship between Leo and Amélie is superbly handled,...
Written and directed by Mark Fouchard, Out of the World is a stylish French horror that centres on the connection formed between two people who struggle to communicate with the normal world. It’s variously known by its original title, Hors du Monde, and by a slightly tweaked translation, Out of this World.
Kevin Mischel stars as Leo, a gifted musician suffering from a severe past trauma. Unable to work as a composer, he makes a living as a taxi driver, but he struggles with extremely violent impulses and may, in fact, be a killer. However, when he picks up deaf dancer Amélie (Aurélia Poirier), something stirs in Leo, not least because she can sense something in his music that others can’t, and the pair begin a tentative relationship.
The relationship between Leo and Amélie is superbly handled,...
- 3/8/2021
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
The organisers of Arrow Video FrightFest Glasgow have announced that, despite continuing Covid-19 restrictions, the festival will return Digitally this year to present a virtual six-pack of tasty titles; an extravaganza of the dark arts that will leave you stirred, shaken and shocked.
There will be six online presentations, including the UK premiere of Kyle Rankin’s controversial high school siege drama Run Hide Fight, starring Isabel May as a fiercely independent student taking on a quartet of invading shooters, and the UK premiere of Out Of This World (Hors Du Monde), a disturbing, compelling study of obsession from brilliant new French director Marc Fouchard. It boasts a stunning performance by Kevin Mischel as a mentally-challenged musician turned Uber driver. A few years back Here Comes Hell, a Black & White mystery thriller, was a FrightFest Glasgow sensation, and The Woman With Leopard Shoes (LA Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard) is another...
There will be six online presentations, including the UK premiere of Kyle Rankin’s controversial high school siege drama Run Hide Fight, starring Isabel May as a fiercely independent student taking on a quartet of invading shooters, and the UK premiere of Out Of This World (Hors Du Monde), a disturbing, compelling study of obsession from brilliant new French director Marc Fouchard. It boasts a stunning performance by Kevin Mischel as a mentally-challenged musician turned Uber driver. A few years back Here Comes Hell, a Black & White mystery thriller, was a FrightFest Glasgow sensation, and The Woman With Leopard Shoes (LA Femme Aux Chaussures Leopard) is another...
- 1/18/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
La Cinquième Saison (The Fifth Season)
Directed by Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
Written by Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
France, 2012
Time is wholly a human construct. While other organisms simply accept the effect of moving time, humans feel the need to perceive and measure its passing. The seasons are an extension of human need to compartmentalize. For farmers, they use the changing seasons to decide when and what type of crops to plant. Story tellers and myth makers take seasons and wrap them in symbolism, giving arbitrary divisions a cultural meaning. The Fifth Season tackles the effects of the absence of human conventions and its effect on humanity as a whole.
The film follows a French village and it’s various inhabitants near the end of winter. There are healthy social interactions and solidarity as shown by the villagers’ festivities towards the end of winter. To welcome the coming of spring,...
Directed by Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
Written by Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
France, 2012
Time is wholly a human construct. While other organisms simply accept the effect of moving time, humans feel the need to perceive and measure its passing. The seasons are an extension of human need to compartmentalize. For farmers, they use the changing seasons to decide when and what type of crops to plant. Story tellers and myth makers take seasons and wrap them in symbolism, giving arbitrary divisions a cultural meaning. The Fifth Season tackles the effects of the absence of human conventions and its effect on humanity as a whole.
The film follows a French village and it’s various inhabitants near the end of winter. There are healthy social interactions and solidarity as shown by the villagers’ festivities towards the end of winter. To welcome the coming of spring,...
- 3/11/2013
- by David Tran
- SoundOnSight
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