Kristof Gans at the 42nd FEST!

Christophe Gans is a unique French director. He was born in 1960, at the peak of the French new wave. As a young man, he turned to a completely different aesthetics and the directors that become famous in the 70's - Carpenter, Cronenberg and Lynch. As early as when he was a young boy, he started making short films with his friends. The topic? Kung fu! He also founded the magazine Starfix, where he wrote about the films that fascinated him, trying to bring them closer to a disinterested French audience. As the guest of the 42nd FEST, he will introduce himself to the Belgrade public with his film Beauty and the Beast.

Necronomicon, written on the basis of the novel of H. P. Lovecraft. He then directed the application of the Japanese Manga Crying freeman, while making a name for himself at the international stage, including in Serbia, with Le pacte de loups. That blockbuster scored a major box office success worldwide, with five million spectators, while enabled Gans to go to Hollywood and make the adaptation of the video game Silent Hill.

Eight years have passed before he got to make his new film - Beauty and the Beast - he will present to the visitors of the 42nd FEST, which film has been premiered on the Berlin Festival. It is an adaptation of the well-known fairy tale, in the atypical Gans style. With a budget of 33 million euros, this is a spectacular blockbuster, not exactly the first thing that comes to one's mind when imagining a French film. It stars Vincent Cassel, Eduardo Noriega and Lea Seydoux, the latter in a completely different role than the one in the film Blue is the warmest color.