French animation house My Fantasy, a 2P2L Group subsidiary dedicated to new media animation, has unveiled its first feature project at Annecy’s MIFA pitch forum. Finalizing pre-production, the noirish thriller “Eugène” tells the real-life story of Eugene Falleni – a transman accused of murder in 1920s Sydney.
Etched in inky greyscale, the true-crime potboiler offers visual nods to classics of the genre like “Kiss Me Deadly,” “M,” and “Gilda” while painting the protagonist – an Italian immigrant to Australia whose story became sensationalized in the local press – with the nuance and compassion he was not afforded in his day.
Aiming for a 2023 wrap, the film will unfurl over two tempos, mixing a rotoscoped manhunt narrative — which finds Eugene on the lam after he is accused of murdering his wife – with a series of lyrical, hand-drawn dreams and flashbacks that evoke the lead’s anguished interior life.
For director Anaïs Caura,...
Etched in inky greyscale, the true-crime potboiler offers visual nods to classics of the genre like “Kiss Me Deadly,” “M,” and “Gilda” while painting the protagonist – an Italian immigrant to Australia whose story became sensationalized in the local press – with the nuance and compassion he was not afforded in his day.
Aiming for a 2023 wrap, the film will unfurl over two tempos, mixing a rotoscoped manhunt narrative — which finds Eugene on the lam after he is accused of murdering his wife – with a series of lyrical, hand-drawn dreams and flashbacks that evoke the lead’s anguished interior life.
For director Anaïs Caura,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
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