Director:
Lucile Hadžihalilović
Producer:
Jean des Forêts, Amélie Jacquis, Andy Starke, Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts
Art Director:
Julia Irribarria and Julien Dubourg
Editor:
Adam Finch
Music:
Nicholas Becker, Warren Ellis and Augustin Viard
Screenplay:
Lucile Hadžhalilović and Geoff Cox, based on the novel by Brian Catling
Director of Photography:
Jonathan Ricquebourg
In her films Innocence and Evolution, Lucile Hadžihalilović proved herself one of cinema’s foremost explorers of the hallucinatory. Her first film in English confirms her visionary status. Based on the novel by Brian Catling, Earwig tells the story of Albert (Paul Hilton), a man employed as guardian to Mia (Romane Hemelaers), a young girl kept in a desolate old house; his job includes tending to her dental prosthetic, which is made of ice. Eventually, he learns that Mia must soon leave. But an encounter in a bar – first sinister, then violent – may change everything. Mesmerisingly photographed by Jonathan Riquebourg, Earwig entirely creates its own hermetic universe – an archaic Belgium of the mind? – through hauntingly strange imagery and the subtle spells of sound design, décor and light through glass.