Between adventure and horror, here is Gueules Noirs, with Samuel Le Bihan. AlloCiné met director Mathieu Turi, a fan of genre films.
After Hostile and Méandre, Mathieu Turi returns with a new genre film: Gueules Noirs. A feature film which crosses influences, and offers us a mixture of adventure and horror, the action of which takes place in a mine! Claustrophobics refrain!
If you grew up in the atmosphere of 80s films, and in particular Indiana Jones, Black Faces should delight you. In our podcast, the director returns to this desire to want to “anchor the film in an 80s, horror, fantasy, adventure side of this era”, “films which have forged the culture of a large part of film buffs”. And to cite films like Alien, The Thing, Indiana Jones, Predator, Terminator…
As for the place of horror in this film which focuses on “a crescendo in discovery”, it is about going all the way after a while. “We honestly accept it when we go there”, summarizes Mathieu Turi. “We play on the viewer’s frustration, while giving them what they expect“.
Mathieu Turi, a child of the 80s, and whose rich career notably led him to work for a certain Quentin Tarantino, is passionate about genre cinema, and shares, in this podcast, the behind the scenes of the making of this ambitious film . He also talks about his next projects, including an adaptation of a very famous video game…
The story of Gueules Noirs: 1956, in the north of France. A group of underground miners are forced to lead a professor to take samples a thousand meters underground. After a landslide that prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, and unknowingly awaken something that should have remained asleep…
Black Faces by Mathieu Turi is released in cinemas on November 15, 2023.
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- Journalist: Brigitte Baronnet
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