A Skin So Soft
Synopsis
An open exploration of the daily lives of six men consumed by their passions: performance, discipline and overcoming the body's constraints.
Festivals
- Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2017
- Calgary International film festival, Calgary, Canada, 2017
- Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2017
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Canada, 2017
- Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Moncton, New-Brunswick, 2017
- Festival de films de Magog, Canada, 2018.
- Victoria Film Festival, Canada, 2018.
- RVCQ - Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montreal, Canada, 2018.
- WNDX, Winnipeg, Canada, 2018.
- Les Percéides, Percé, Canada, 2018
Director: Denis Côté
Script: Denis Côté
Cast: Jean-Francois Bouchard, Cedric Doyon, Benoit Lapierre, Alexis Legare, Maxim Lemire, Ronald Yang
DOP: François Messier-Rheault
Sound design: Fernand-Philippe Morin-Vargas, Frederic Cloutier, Clovis Gouaillier
Editing: Nicolas Roy
Production: Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Denis Cote, Joelle Bertossa, Dounia Sichov
Version
Original: French
Subtitles: English
Format
1:85, 5.1
DCP, Pro Res, H264
In the 90s, he shot some fifteen short films, then worked as a journalist and film critic before directing his first feature Les états nordiques in 2005. His 4th feature, Carcasses (2009), was presented at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, while Curling, won top honors at the Locarno Festival in 2010. Vic+Flo ont vu un ours (2013) won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale in Germany for its innovation. Also at the Berlinale, he presented four features in the Official Competition. Denis Côté's singular films have been shown at hundreds of cinematic events, as well as being the subject of some forty retrospectives around the world.
