the Ones who grieve (a 19th Century Horror Drama by Quarxx)

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French filmmaker Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky, Pandemonium) is back.

In the film, “At the end of the 19th century, on an isolated farm, Zélie is trapped under the authority of her father Jacob, a deeply religious man. As a mysterious disease known as the ‘Black Veil’ ravages the surrounding countryside and faith begins to blur with madness, she must fight to preserve her humanity and claim her freedom.”

A plague may serve as the backdrop, but Quarxx’s director’s statement touches on a much more intimite horror ahead: “The Ones who Grieve is, above all, a film about control. An intimate, insidious form of control that begins within the family unit and gradually contaminates the entire social body. The starting point is neither fear nor the fantastic, but a far more difficult violence to confront: forbidden desire, enforced silence, and domination exercised in the name of moral, paternal, and religious authority.”