The phrase “Hypersexuality is Not a Disease“ could be written over the entrance of the film’s quiet social institution, located next to a calm lake, where somber Léonie, impulsive Eugénie, and flirty Geisha are to spend a month-long voluntary retreat in the purpose of mastering their sexual obsessions. Supervised by a female German therapist and a male social worker, the three girls spend their days caught between fantasy and reality, past and future, desire and trauma. Denis Côté places female sexuality at the forefront and explores erotic obsessions, carnal desire, and rarely-heard intimate thoughts in a delicate yet raw and direct way that ultimately seeks to discuss the process of self-awareness.
That Kind of Summer
Un été comme ça
63rd TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
| Available at the Agora Market TIFF63. |
- Direction: Denis Côté
- Script: Denis Côté
- Cinematography: François Messier-Rheault
- Editing: Dounia Sichov
- Sound: Yann Cleary, Sacha Ratcliffe, Stéphane Bergeron
- Actors: Larissa Corriveau, Aude Mathieu, Laure Giappiconi, Anne Ratte Polle, Samir Guesmi
- Production: Metafilms
- Producers: Sylvain Corbeil, Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre
- Costumes: Caroline Bodson
- Production Design: Marie-Pier Fortier
- Make Up: Dominique T. Hasbani
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Canada
- Production Year: 2022
- Duration: 138΄
- Contact: Shellac
Denis Côté
Born in New Brunswick in 1973, Denis Côté began making short films after completing his studies in Cinema. While working as a film critic, he finished his first feature-length film in 2005, Les états Nordiques (Drifting States). The film won the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, then made the rounds of the festival circuit. Carcasses (2009) was presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Côté is interested in exploring themes of solitude, intimate fears, and alienation through documentary and fiction filmmaking that confronts and questions the language of cinema. His films have been shown at more than twenty retrospectives throughout the world.
Filmography
2005 Drifting States
2007 Our Private Lives
2008 All That She Wants
2010 The Enemy Lines (short)
2014 Joy of Man’s Desiring (doc)
2016 Boris Without Béatrice
2017 A Skin So Soft (doc)
2019 Ghost Town Anthology
2021 Social Hygiene
2022 That Kind of Summer
