SYNOPSIS

On the French Riviera, the chronicle of the rivalry between two gangs of kids, locals and summer visitors, competing in the perilous game of cliff jumping. Their story turns into a "Romeo and Juliet"-style romance, a game of life, love and death.

Original Title: Les Roches Rouges Countries: France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal Year: 2025

BIOGRAPHY

Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed several feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His first feature film La vie de Jésus was selected at Directors' Fortnight. His films have won several awards at the Cannes films Festival.  Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité (1999) and Flandres (2006).  The only other director who has twice won the Cannes Grand Prix is Andrei Tarkovsky. Dumont's Hadewijch won the 2009 Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Special Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival. In 2016, Slack Bay, starring Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini, was presented in Competition at the Cannes International Film Festival. The year after, Jeannette, a musical adaptation of Charles Péguy’s writings about Joan of Arc, is selected in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.

In 2021, he directed "France," a frenetic chronicle of the life of a star television journalist portrayed by Léa Seydoux, caught in the whirlwind between her profession - from TV studios to distant wars -, the routine of her family life, the torments of her fame, a life too full where the mundane and the glamorous, the poor and the powerful, constantly mingle. The film was selected at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.

Dumont’s latest film, directed in 2023, is "The Empire", a tale of a merciless Manichaean struggle drawn from the sci-fi repertoire and set in a fishing village on the Opal Coast. Beneath the facade of the locals' ordinary life emerges the parallel, epic life of interplanetary empire knights at the birth of the Margat, Beast of the End Times, who takes the form of an ordinary infant in a residential neighborhood. In competition at the 74th Berlinale, the film received the Silver Bear Jury Prize.

Filmography

The Empire - 2023

France - 2021

Joan of Arc - 2019

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans - 2018

Jeannette - 2017

Slack Bay - 2016

Lil’Quinquin - 2014

Camille Claudel 1915 - 2013

Hors Satan/Outside Satan - 2011

Hadewijch - 2009

Flandres - 2006

Twentynine Palms - 2003

Humanity - 1999

The Life of Jesus - 1997

CREW

Director: Bruno Dumont Production: Tessalit (France) in coproduction with Nightswim (Italie), Novak Prod (Belgium) and Rosa Filmes (Portugal) Sales: Luxbox

BRUNO DUMONT

Director