Undercurrent

Coma

Bertrand BONELLO France 80 mins M18 (Sexual Scene) Southeast Asian Premiere

FILM SYNOPSIS

Phantasms and screens—enter the burrows of a teenager’s psyche in this bracingly original hybrid film by French auteur Bertrand Bonello.

An 18-year-old spends the pandemic lockdown trapped with her thoughts, FaceTiming friends, and consuming YouTube videos by an alluring life guru peddling bizarre devices as well as ideas on how to “live better”. Different realities and worlds, desires and projections, bleed into one another in a fever dream where meaning is but a thwarted attempt at existence.

Bookended by a letter to the filmmaker’s own teenage daughter, Coma was produced during the lockdown which spurred even greater creativity in terms of formal experimentation with the use of animation and found footage. Resisting interpretation, Coma is a daring work that reveals the impossibility of a totalising reality—especially in a teenage girl’s head.

FILM INFO

FILM CREDITS

Bertrand BONELLO

Bertrand BONELLO is a French director, actor and composer. Coma is the third film in a loose trilogy centred on teenagers, after Nocturama (2016) and Zombi Child (2019). It premiered at the Berlinale, where it won the FIPRESCI Award.

CONTACT

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Screening Details

  • Date/Time

  • Venue

    Golden Village Plaza Singapura, Hall 9

  • Runtime

    80 mins

  • Online Q&A available on YouTube (coming soon)

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