Event

All That She Wants

Seattle Premiere!

(Denis Côté, 2008, Canada, 35mm, 105 min)
Côté took home the Golden Leopard from Locarno Film Festival for the exquisitely constructed All That She Wants. True to form, he turns the camera on characters at the marginsbroken families in a nameless country. Composed in breathtaking black and white, All That She Wants is a collection of images and relationships creating more than a conventional narrative. At the center stands Coralie, a rebellious teenager with no mother (hers has disappeared) but two father figures: Jacob, who may be her biological father, and the eerily friendly Pierrot, an ex-con who sets up next door with his dubious crew. Permeating All That She Wants is the sense of unease, even dread, familiar from Côté's other work, and the formal virtuosity that has made him one of Canada's most internationally respected directors.

"An assured, disquieting drama of identity, isolation, and rebirth."Canadian Film Institute