Outside Satan

Hors Satan

A mysterious and taciturn loner, who communes with the coastal dunes, seascapes, and sunsets of the Pas-de-Calais, has acquired a local reputation as a healer. He is an embodiment of the spirit of the landscape, beyond good and evil, executing his sacred tasks: punishing the wicked, exorcising the demons, mechanically offering salvation through sex, bringing an innocent victim back from the dead. A secular and mesmerizing parable that delves into the coexistence of the divine and the satanic inside the human soul.
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Direction: Bruno Dumont
Script: Bruno Dumont
Cinematography: Yves Cape
Editing: Bruno Dumont, Basile Belkhiri
Actors: David Dewaele, Alexandra Lemâtre, Valerie Mestdagh, Sonia Barthélémy, Juliette Bacquet, Christophe Bon, Dominique Caffier
Production: 3B Productions
Producers: Jean Brehat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin
Co-production: CRRAV. Nord-Pas-de-Calais Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains
Costumes: Alexandra Charles
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: France
Production Year: 2011
Duration: 109΄
Contact: Pyramide International, sales@pyramidefilms.com
Awards/Distinctions: Best French Film – Prix Saint-Germain 2011

Bruno Dumont

Bruno Dumont directed his first feature film at the age of thirty-eight: The Life of Jesus in 1997, shot in Bailleul, his native town in Northern France. This film earned him immediate recognition: selected for the Directors' Fortnight, it received a Special Mention. Exploring a demanding, singular, raw cinematographic path, Bruno Dumont returned to Cannes in 1999 with Humanity, in Official Competition. He was awarded with the Grand Prix and a double prize for the interpretation of the two non-professional actors. Bruno Dumont moved away from the North of France to shoot in the California desert, Twentynine Palms, a road movie selected at the Venice Film Festival in 2003. In 2006, Flanders, a harsh film about the ravages of war, received the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Bruno Dumont then directed two films on the themes of religion, mysticism and their drifts: Hadewijch and Outside Satan. After a biopic with Juliette Binoche, Camille Claudel 1915, Bruno Dumont opened up to a new audience with the brilliant success of the mini-series Li'l Quinquin, a much more comical project than his previous works. He continues on the same burlesque path with Slack Bay, which was presented in Official Competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. He then turned his attention to the tragic fate of Joan of Arc and directed the musical Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, selected at the Directors' Fortnight in 2017 and then Joan of Arc selected at Un Certain Regard in 2019 where he received a Special Mention from the jury. The film also received the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc. France, starring Lea Seydoux, an acerbic satire of the media world through a portrait of a star journalist, was selected in competition at Cannes Film Festival in 2021. In 2024, Dumont's new feature, the galactic comedy The Empire premiered at the 74th Berlinale.

Filmography

1997 The Life of Jesus
1999 Humanity
2003 Twentynine Palms
2006 Flanders
2009 Hadewijch
2011 Outside Satan
2013 Camille Claudel 1915
2014 Li'l Quinquin (TV)
2019 Joan of Arc
2021 France
2024 The Empire