THE MAGNET MAN
Lucien is a human magnet: everything made of iron sticks to his body. At the beginning of the 20th century, rural Belgium has no place for his unusual natural talent. One day, he accidentally gets attached to a train that carries him far away. On this journey, Lucien stumbles across a traveling theatre and its colorful troupe of artists. His magnetism attracts both good and bad, often changing the course of his destiny. The Magnet Man tells the tragicomic tale of how our greatest talents can become our greatest flaws, and how unpredictable our lives can be.
Gust Van den Berghe was born in Belgium in 1985. With a background in theatre, opera, and dance, he studied filmmaking at the School of Audiovisual Art of Brussels. His graduate film Little Baby Jesus of Flandr premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2010. He returned to Cannes the following year with his second film Blue Bird: a timeless tale shot in Togo and dipped in blue. With his 2014 film Lucifer, which premiered at the Rome International Film Festival, he developed a circular film format called ‘Tondoscope’. The Magnet Man is his fourth film. He currently works as a professor at the fiction department of RITSC in Brussels and is preparing his new feature film.
Palić Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – Best Original Score
THE MAGNET MAN (ff.)
DIRECTOR: Gust Van den Berghe
COUNTRY: the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium
YEAR: 2023.
RUNTIME: 90’
LANGUAGE: Dutch
CAST: Danny Ronaldo, Isolda Dyachuk, Mieke Dobbels, Karel Creemers, Georges Christen
PRODUCTION: Minds Meet, Les Films Fauves, Lemming Film
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PROGRAM LINE: KINOKAUCH PRESENTS