Tiresia
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Tiresia | |
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Directed by | Bertrand Bonello |
Written by | Bertrand Bonello Luca Fazzi |
Starring | Laurent Lucas Clara Choveaux Thiago Telès Célia Catalifo |
Music by | Albin De La Simone Laurie Markovitch |
Cinematography | Josée Deshaies |
Editing by | Fabrice Rouaud |
Release date(s) | May 20, 2003, Cannes Film Festival |
Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | France |
Tiresia (France) is a 2003 film directed by Bertrand Bonello and written by Bonello and Luca Fazzi.
Based on the legend of Tiresias, it tells of a transsexual who is kidnapped by a man and left to die in the woods. She is then saved by a family and receives the gift of telling the future. The film stars Laurent Lucas, Clara Choveaux, Thiago Telès and Célia Catalifo.
Tiresia was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes film festival.
[edit] Bibliography
- Bernard Stiegler, "Tirésias et la guerre du temps: Autour d'un film de Bertrand Bonello," De la misère symbolique: Tome 1. L'époque hyperindustrielle (Paris: Galilée, 2004): 163–85.
[edit] External links
- Tiresia at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Bertrand Bonello July 14, 2005