IndieWire spoke to filmmaker Mysius ahead of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight premiere on Monday, and also shares an exclusive clip (below) in which Vicky explains her gift to Joanne. Once Vicky captures Julia’s scent, she begins to experience traumatic memories that aren’t her own.Ĭoalition for Filmmakers at Risk Calls on Iran to Let Mohammad Rasoulof Travel to Cannes The filmmaker has a keen interest in the five senses (hence this film’s title) but also domestic discord, as the reappearance of Vicky’s aunt Julia (Swala Emati) throws things out of orbit in their small Alpine nestled at the feet of the mountains (which, shot by Paul Guilhaume in 35mm, hums with an otherworldly pale glow). The film shares DNA with writer/director Léa Mysius’ (co-writing with Paul Guilhaume) film “Ava,” a Critics’ Week entry in 2017 about a 13-year-old girl who learns she’s losing her hearing. Those captured scents include those of other people, and one of them is her mother, Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), with whom she has a parasitic relationship. Directors’ Fortnight entry “ The Five Devils” centers on a young, nearly wordless girl named Vicky (first-timer Sally Dramé) who has a strange and extraordinary gift: she can reproduce any scent she finds, which she then bottles up in a collection of labeled jars.
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