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FrInterview with Steven Breckon about "The Plague", by Charlie Polinger
By François Reumont for the AFC
Set in a water polo camp, Charlie Polinger’s film draws a portrait of 13-year-old boys in the throes of puberty. The director crafted a somewhat deep soundscape around the pool, and asked cinematographer Steven Breckon to shoot this dark and blue tale about difference on 35mm film. The Plague is in competition in the Un Certain Regard section... (FR)
At a boys’ water polo camp, a twelve-year-old boy is marginalised by his peers according to a cruel tradition in which one of them is said to be carrying a disease they call "The Plague". As the line between game and reality becomes increasingly blurred, he begins to fear that the joke is hiding something real.
