Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Three wealthy, married family men get together for their annual hunting game in a desert canyon. But this time, one of them has brought with him his young mistress, a sexy lolita who quickly arouses the interest of the two others. Things get dramatically out of hand.
Coralie Fargeat
Coralie Fargeat is a French filmmaker, screenwriter and actress. She gained recognition with her 2017 debut feature film Revenge, for which she received several awards. Her follow-up feature, The Substance (2024), a satirical body horror film, won her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay and earned her accolades worldwide, including at the Academy Award, making her the second French woman to be nominated for Best Director, one year after Justine Triet.
