Bestiaire

Story

A drawing course for students, a taxidermist’s workshop, a safari park in Québec: Bestiaire is no classical nature documentary or zoo portrait.It is a visually outstanding study of domesticated wildlife and our relationship with it.Director Denis Côté makes his observations of the animals and their environment mostly from a fixed camera position.His commentary contains no value judgments, preferring to reflect the viewers’ perception back at them, including the reflex to imagine narration where there is none. A film about the foreignness of the wild and our strategies against it.

Director

DENIS CÔTÉ (*1973) is one of the most interesting directors in Canadian cinema. FILMFEST HAMBURG has shown All That She Wants (2008), Carcasse (2009), Curling (2010), Bestiaire (2012) and A Skin So Soft (2017).

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