If there’s one silver lining to the whole film industry having to adapt during the pandemic, it’s that we’ve seen quite a few classics get re-released digitally through Virtual Cinemas all over. And though theaters are opening up around the world once again, Metrograph has a digital-only film release for Claire Denis’ 2004 acclaimed drama, “L’intrus,” aka “The Intruder,” that is sure to draw some interest from cinephiles.
As seen in the trailer, “L’intrus” tells the story of an aging mercenary that is searching for his long-estranged son and a heart transplant. The whirlwind thriller ventures all over the world from the Alps to Korea to Tahiti. Denis’ film stars Alex Descas (“35 Shots of Rum,” “Irma Vep”), Béatrice Dalle (“Trouble Every Day,” “Betty Blue”), Lolita Chammah (“At Eternity’s Gate”), and Yekaterina Golubeva (“Pola X”). “L’intrus” is directed by Denis, who also co-wrote the script alongside longtime collaborator, Jean-Pol Fargeau. The film competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2004.
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“L’intrus” is set to play at Metrograph’s website on March 26 for an exclusive digital run for members only. You can find out more at Metrograph.com. You can watch the trailer for the film below.
Here’s the synopsis:
One of Denis’s most ambitious, complicated, and exhilaratingly daring films, L’intrus charts an itinerary traveling from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti, following an old mercenary (Michel Subor, from Le Petit Soldat and Beau travail) in search of both a heart transplant and his long-estranged son (Denis regular Grégoire Colin). Featuring visceral camerawork by Agnès Godard, a backstory supplied by snippets from Paul Gégauff’s 1965 Subor-starring film Le Reflux, and lots of feral dogs, L’Intrus (The Intruder) is as easy to feel as it is impossible to resolve, pushing Denis’s elliptical style to the extreme and transforming the logic and laws of narrative in the process of adapting an unadaptable essay by philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.