Cleo (2019 Belgian film)

Cleo
Film poster
Directed byEva Cools
Written byEva Cools
Produced byAnnemie Degryse, Jan De Clercq
StarringAnna Franziska Jaeger
Roy Aernouts
Yolande Moreau
CinematographyBrecht Goyvaerts
Edited byAlain Dessauvage
Music byMauro Pawlowski
Production
company
Lunanime
Distributed byLumière
Release dates
  • 17 October 2019 (2019-10-17) (Gent International Film Festival)
  • 27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
Running time
100'
CountryBelgium
LanguagesDutch, French

Cleo is a 2019 Belgian drama film directed and written by Eva Cools, her first feature-length film.[1][2]

Background

Cools funded the film with support from the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, Screen Brussels and via additional support from crowdsourcing.[2][3]

Plot

Cleo is the story of a 17-year-old girl who survives a serious road accident. Her parents did not have that chance. After this fatal night, she gets lost in Brussels and takes refuge with Leos, a mysterious man older than her. Cleo's father was a renowned pianist, and the girl has been playing since a very young age. If Cleo likes to listen to contemporary music, it is the piano (and especially the work of Rachmaninov) that is at the heart of her reconstruction process.

Cast

Production

Principal photography on the film began on 24 January 2018 and lasted til 9 March 2018 in Belgium.[4]

Accolades

Cools won the Visser-Neerlandia Prize in 2016 for the film's script.[5][6] Cools' debut film Cleo won the Alice MyMovies Award at the Italian Alice Nella Città film festival. [7]

At the 10th Magritte Awards, Cleo received two nominations in the categories of Best Flemish Film and Best Supporting Actress for Yolande Moreau.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Cleo Crowdfunding – Le premier long métrage d'Eva Cools". cleodefilm.be.
  2. ^ a b Ceulemans, Ewoud (2017) "Jonge regisseur start crowdfunding voor langspeeldebuut", De Morgen, 28 December 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2018
  3. ^ "Opnames Cléo van start", filmmagie.be. Retrieved 14 July 2018
  4. ^ "Le casting du film belge CLEO dévoilé – CINECULT.be". www.cinecult.be.
  5. ^ "Viviane De Muynck en Eva Cools gelauwerd op de Avond van het Vlaamse Filmberoep", Front View, 16 October 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2018
  6. ^ Butstraen, Raf (2016) "Eva Cools wil ontroeren met bekroond ‘Cleo’ script", filmfestival.be, 15 October 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2018
  7. ^ "Alice nella città 2019, Cleo vince il premio MYmovies".
  8. ^ Dricot, Lucy (1 February 2020). "Découvrez le palmarès complet de la 10e cérémonie des Magritte du cinéma" (in French). RTBF. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.


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