Directed by Maxime Giroux.
Written by Simon Beaulieu and Maxime Giroux.
English title: The Great Darkened Daysa
With Martin Dubreuil, Romain Duris, Reda Kateb, Sarah Gadon, Cody Fern, and Lise Roy
While a world war rages, Philippe (Martin Dubreuil), a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, and survives by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his long journey home, he encounters various characters under the sway of a destructive madness. and takes a trip to the darker side of the American dream.
La Grande Noirceur can be streamed on TV5Monde Etats-Unis, and is available on DVD.
Soko, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' frontwoman Karen O, and Brooklyn punk rockers Parquet Courts, appear in PRETTY PRIZES, a chic New Wave-style mystery that begins Daniele Luppi's MILANO project, a collection of fictionalized stories about misfits, fashionistas, and junkies in mid-1980s Milan.
Written and directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto.
English title: The Dancer
Biography of dancer Loie Fuller. After the death of her gold prospector father, 25-year-old Marie-Louise leaves her life in the American West to join her mother in New York and pursue her dream of becoming an actress. One night on stage, she becoming tangled in her long dress, she avoids falling by spinning the fabric in a graceful, magical gesture, and the "Serpentine Dance" is born, the symbol of a generation.
Directed by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin, and filmed in Greece.
English title: The Stopover
THE STOPOVER is about Aurore and Marine, two young soldiers returning from Afghanistan. With their section, they will spend three days in Cyprus in a five star hotel, in the middle of tourists on holiday, for what the army calls a "decompression chamber", to help them forget the war. But one does not forget the violence so easily. Based on the novel "View of the country" by Delphine Coulin.
Director: Tannaz Hazemi
Soko does not appear in this film, but she covers the Platters' song THE GREAT PRETENDER in Tannaz Hazemi's 2015 short film, BEFORE THE BOMB. Kim Taylor of Noisey Music talked to Hazimi about Soko's version of the song: "To give you an idea of how I've obsessed over this song - I started working on it about a year ago. Since then it's been a game of juggling waiting and editing, between Soko's schedule and the various engineers mixers and composers who have worked on this from LA to NY. It's been THE most expensive element of my movie and I've worked on it as hard as I have the movie. How do I feel? Ecstatic. Elated. Overjoyed. It's a song that I want to hear over and over and I couldn't be more proud of it."
BEFORE THE BOMB can be purchased from YouTube.
Directed by Gabriel Sunday.
With Daniel Johnston, Greg McCloud, Miles McCloud, and Gabriel Sunday.
In this short film, Soko is Dream Laurie, and Daniel Johnston stars as an aging musician, in immersive short film and exhibition exploring the music, art, and mind of Daniel Johnston.
HI, HOW ARE YOU DANIEL JOHNSTON can be streamed on YouTube.
Soko is Alvin in this film (originally titled 'Worthy'), about an actress who abandons her principles in pursuit of fame, only to realize that "her biggest fan is back at home". Amberlee Colson, who wrote the screenplay, also appears in the film. It is the first feature for Marianna Palka.
ALWAYS WORTHY can be streamed on TUBI.
Directed by Natalie Neal (now Nathalie Christmas), the three minute short film I STILL CHOSE TO STAY is the first installment of a series of short films commissioned by THE MIRROR CUBE. Soko is featured in this illustrated poem about a young artist struggling in a domestic hell.
Twenty strangers kiss for the first time in this short film directed by Tatia Pilieva, among them Natalia Bonifacci, Luke Cook, Jill Larson, Marianna Palka, Karim Saleh, Ingrid Sophie Shram, Elizabetta Tedia, and Cory Griesenbeck.
In an interview with Amanda Duberman of The Huffington Post about her participation in Tatia Pilieva's FIRST KISS video, Soko describes how she became involved with the project, and what the experience was like.
"I asked if I could kiss a girl rather than a guy and they said 'sure'...I met [my kissing partner] Marianna five minutes before I kissed her and I assumed she was a lesbian. Nobody had done it before me so I didn't have anything in mind in terms of how long we were supposed to kiss. We were kind of shy. We just talked and she was really nice. We thought it was fun, so we took our time, looked at each other and made it real, not mechanical. I wanted it to be special and it felt that way. Marianna then admitted it was actually the first time she had ever kissed a girl."
Soko is the voice of Isabella in the Spike Jonze film HER, which won Jonze an Oscar for best screenplay. The film, scored by Arcade Fire, is about a lonely writer who falls in love with his computer's operating system. HER tied with GRAVITY for best film honours from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. (Soko is the voice of Mina and sings the last song in another Spike Jonze film, Mourir auprès de toi (To Die By Your Side).
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HER can be streamed on MAX.
Directors: Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski.
English title: Friends From France
Two cousins travel to Leningrad in 1982. Their mission is to discreetly contact the Soviet Jews persecuted by the regime, the "refuzniks", to offer them help and comfort.
Réalisateur : Thomas Rhazi
Producteur : Céline Roubaud
Soko starred in the "Your Ways" video by Goose, directed by Thomas Rhazi for Wanda Productions. Other actors in the video are Guillaume Verdier and Serge Feuillard.
Directed by Soko.
The short film, Monster Love opens with a duet with Ariel Pink, who inspsired its creation. The male monster is played by Morgan Krantz, Hannah Frazier is the Mermaid. Others in the cast are Bethany McCarty, Dugan O'Neal, Bebel Ana, Emilia Sterkel, Nathan Thelen, and Suzie Philippot.
Director: Alice Winocour
The film is set at the end of the 19th Century, and explores the mutual fascination that develops between Doctor Charcot, who studies 'hysteria' and one of his patients, a housemaid named Augustine. The housemaid quickly becomes an object of desire, the sole subject of Charcot's research and his obsession. To please him, Augustine puts her whole body into the experiments. Over the course of the tests, an intimacy starts to develop between them. But the closer Charcot gets to Augustine, the more he desires her, and the more ill he makes her
This seventeen minute romantic comedy is Flora Desprats' first short film. Rachid Hami and Sabrina Ouazani are also in the cast.
A clip is available on Vimeo.
A short film (42 minutes) that brings together American and European actors in an epic revisiting California through memories birthed by the film industry.
Directed by Philippe Terrier-Hermann. Written by Matthieu Orléan.
With: Sharon Stone, Gaspard Ulliel, and Mamie Van Doren.
Directed by Simon Cahn and Spike Jonze.
Written by Olympia Le-tan.
English title: To Die By Your Side
On a shelf in a famed Parisian bookstore called 'Shakespeare and Company', the love story of a klutzy skeleton and his red-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan's illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers.
Directed by Virginie Despentes.
A romantic comedy about two women who fell in love during the 1980's and then went their separate ways. They find each other again more than 25 years later.