Title: Pascal Laugier's MARTYRS
Sheldon Warnock - May 27, 2007 11:01 PM (GMT)
Pascal Laugier's Martyrs stars Mylène Jampanoï (Valley of Flowers) as Lucie, and Morjana Alaoui (Marock) as Anna. The movie currently is in production.
Synopsis
France. A night at the beginning of the 1970s.
Lucie, a little girl missing for over a year, is discovered wandering by the side of a country road.
Near catatonic, she can say nothing about what has happened to her. The cops quickly find the place in which she's been incarcerated - a disused slaughterhouse. Every indication is that she never once left the empty, freezing room in which she was imprisoned.
Filthy, starving, dehydrated, the child's body nonetheless bears no traces of sexual abuse - this was no paedophile abduction, but something far stranger.
What happened in that icy room? And how did Lucie escape?
Lucie is hospitalized - slowly she learns how to live again, an enfant sauvage gradually returning to the real world. In the hospital, she meets Anna, another little girl, and a victim of terrible abuse at the hands of her family. In no time, they are inseparable. Anna takes charge of Lucie, like a mother. As for her kidnappers, the police are at a dead end. Lucie's ordeal remains a terrible mystery.
One night, as Anna sleeps, Lucie hears an awful, rasping breathing. A vision appears: a body, naked, skeletal, tortured. Barely human. The apparition seizes her...
15 years later. A house, isolated in the middle of a forest. A family: Mum, Dad, two kids. A happy home. As they eat breakfast, there's a knock at the door. The father opens it to find a young woman, hollow-eyed and wraithlike and mad. In her hands, a rifle. "Remember the little girl I once was?" She shoots him where he stands, enters the house, and locks the door...
Minutes later, the family lie bloody. All dead. Lucie calls Anna, who tells her not to move, she'll be right there. In shock, Lucie hangs up. And then she hears it. That terrible, terribly familiar breathing...
Martyrs concept art #3 (viewer discretion is advised)
Martyrs concept art #2
Martyrs concept art #1 (viewer discretion is advised)
MySpace: "'Martyrs': une visite" - Martyrs 'making of' video
MySpace: Benoît Lestang's videos
Sources: April 25th, May 24th, and May 26th Twitch articles on Martyrs; GOMORRAHY.com
Synopsis
France. A night at the beginning of the 1970s.
Lucie, a little girl missing for over a year, is discovered wandering by the side of a country road.
Near catatonic, she can say nothing about what has happened to her. The cops quickly find the place in which she's been incarcerated - a disused slaughterhouse. Every indication is that she never once left the empty, freezing room in which she was imprisoned.
Filthy, starving, dehydrated, the child's body nonetheless bears no traces of sexual abuse - this was no paedophile abduction, but something far stranger.
What happened in that icy room? And how did Lucie escape?
Lucie is hospitalized - slowly she learns how to live again, an enfant sauvage gradually returning to the real world. In the hospital, she meets Anna, another little girl, and a victim of terrible abuse at the hands of her family. In no time, they are inseparable. Anna takes charge of Lucie, like a mother. As for her kidnappers, the police are at a dead end. Lucie's ordeal remains a terrible mystery.
One night, as Anna sleeps, Lucie hears an awful, rasping breathing. A vision appears: a body, naked, skeletal, tortured. Barely human. The apparition seizes her...
15 years later. A house, isolated in the middle of a forest. A family: Mum, Dad, two kids. A happy home. As they eat breakfast, there's a knock at the door. The father opens it to find a young woman, hollow-eyed and wraithlike and mad. In her hands, a rifle. "Remember the little girl I once was?" She shoots him where he stands, enters the house, and locks the door...
Minutes later, the family lie bloody. All dead. Lucie calls Anna, who tells her not to move, she'll be right there. In shock, Lucie hangs up. And then she hears it. That terrible, terribly familiar breathing...
Martyrs concept art #3 (viewer discretion is advised)
Martyrs concept art #2
Martyrs concept art #1 (viewer discretion is advised)
MySpace: "'Martyrs': une visite" - Martyrs 'making of' video
MySpace: Benoît Lestang's videos
Sources: April 25th, May 24th, and May 26th Twitch articles on Martyrs; GOMORRAHY.com
Sheldon Warnock - December 5, 2007 08:51 PM (GMT)
Martyrs large teaser poster (see above - 600 x 800 / 80 KB JPEG version)
Martyrs production still #1 (44 KB JPEG)
Martyrs production still #2 (44 KB JPEG)
Martyrs production still #3 (44 KB JPEG)
Martyrs production still #4 (36 KB JPEG)
Martyrs production still #5 (44 KB JPEG)
Martyrs production still #6 (52 KB JPEG)
Martyrs production still #7 (44 KB JPEG)
"'Martyrs': une visite" - Martyrs 'making of' video (French w/o subtitles; downloadable 20.6 MB MOV file)
Sheldon Warnock - January 22, 2008 04:29 AM (GMT)
Sheldon Warnock - May 30, 2008 07:57 PM (GMT)
Yesterday evening, the Commission de classification des œuvres cinématographiques recommended to France's Minister of Culture and Communication that the French theatrical release of Martyrs be restricted to persons 18 years of age or older ("interdiction aux mineurs de moins de dix huit ans"). By way of comparison, the commission recommended that the French theatrical release of Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's Inside (À l'intérieur) be restricted to persons 16 years of age or older ("interdiction aux mineurs de moins de seize ans"), and that the French theatrical release of Xavier Gens' Frontier(s) ((Frontière(s))) be restricted to persons 16 years of age or older, with a warning (to wit, "Ce film accumule des scènes de boucherie particulièreent réalistes et éprouvantes").
Martyrs diaporama video (QuickTime)
GOMORRAHY.com: Martyrs (w/ diaporama video, posters, stills, etc.)
Sheldon Warnock - June 7, 2008 08:59 PM (GMT)
An English-subtitled promo reel for Martyrs has been added to the page for the movie on GOMORRAHY.com.
Martyrs English-subtitled promo reel (MPEG-4)
GOMORRAHY.com: Martyrs (w/ promo reel, diaporama video, posters, stills, etc.)
Sheldon Warnock - June 12, 2008 05:47 PM (GMT)
Two teaser trailers for Martyrs have been added to the page for the movie on GOMORRAHY.com. The English-subtitled promo reel for the movie has been removed from that page at the personal request of Laugier.
A short video of the poster shoot for Martyrs has been added to YouTube.
Martyrs teaser trailer #1 (QuickTime)
Martyrs teaser trailer #2 (QuickTime)
YouTube: Martyrs poster shoot video page
GOMORRAHY.com: Martyrs (w/ 2 teaser trailers, diaporama video, posters, stills, press kit, etc.)