World premiering in competition at Cannes this year, where Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne jointly won the Best Actor prize, Lukas Dhont’s Coward has since been selected as Belgium’s Oscar entry. Ahead of a theatrical release from MUBI beginning on December 25, the first trailer has now arrived.
Here’s the synopsis: “Pierre (Macchia) arrives at the front lines as a young soldier eager to find his footing in a world consumed by violence. Everything changes when he meets Francis (Campagne), a kindred spirit whose vision of staging a front-line theatre show unlocks a world Pierre never knew existed. What begins as a fleeting escape from the harsh reality of the trenches soon blossoms into a tender, emotional love story, anchored by the undeniable chemistry of breakout actors Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne. As the world burns around them, their stage becomes a sanctuary of innocence and devotion.”
Savina Petkova said in her Cannes review, “Cinema has taken viewers to the trenches of World War I so often that audiences might as well have formed sensory memories of a throat-clenching terror, the screams drowned by a sudden explosion and ears ringing. It’s all artificial, of course, but film’s empathy machine is perfectly suited for such participatory experiences from the safety of our seats. Yet war, like love, has too many faces and facets to ever be extensively represented. Luckily for us, Flemish director Lukas Dhont has chosen exactly that setting for his third feature (after Girl and Close) and first love story. Coward is one of those provocative titles called into question by everyone but the film’s protagonist. In the Belgian army (on the French side), Pierre (Emmanuel Macchia) and his mates take pleasure in naming others cowards, be it enemies or deserters, summarizing a hero/weakling binary from the get-go.”
See the trailer and poster below.
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