Humanist vampire seeking consenting suicide: funny and melancholy (review)
The revelation of Falcon Lake turns into a vampire in this charming little comedy which succeeds in painting a melancholy portrait of youth.
A good film doesn't come down to anything: a sentence that makes you laugh, a nice shot, great actors, something obvious that jumps out at you… Vhumanist ampire seeks consenting suicide manages to accomplish just that in its first ten minutes: we attend a birthday party at the vampire family, who are going to eat a rather lame clown – and above all realize that their little daughter, too emotional (“she is moved by a rock!“, laments her mother) is not very keen on the idea of drinking the blood of other human beings. Arriving at adulthood (sixty years old, the look of a young gothic girl with bangs), then as social pressure becomes stronger and stronger, she will set her sights on another depressed kid to take the plunge. The great drama of the discovery of sexuality – this is the main idea of the film – told by vampires Quebecois, in short.
It's a first film that's a bit of a pimped-out short film, with its aesthetic based on nocturnal photography and neon lights, but Humanist vampire seeking consenting suicide works thanks to its constant humor (Quebec vocabulary necessarily plays a role in this) which is charged with melancholy at the most appropriate moments. And thanks to its main actress, the formidable Sara Montpetit, discovered in Falcon Lake by Charlotte Le Bon. It's nothing, a good film? In fact, yes, it has a lot to do with it. And most of it is in there.
By Ariane Louis-Seize. With Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Noémie O'Farrell… Duration 1h30. Released March 20, 2024
