Director Léa Mysius expertly crafts a queer, witchy movie in her Directors’ Fortnite debut film, The Five Devils, which received a five-minute standing ovation at the screening I attended.
Mysius takes concepts like identity, sexuality, and mysticism and creates an intricate genre film that’s part time travel, part drama, and all heart.
Vickey (Sally Dramé) is a mixed-race child growing up in small town in France, and she has a special gift: she can reproduce any sent from anything and anyone anywhere.
She keeps the scents bottled for reference. Her sense of smell is so sharp she can tell which animal licked a pine cone and could find her mother Joanne (Adèle Exarchopoulos) by smell even when she’s 20 feet away from her and covered in pine.Joanne is a swim instructor and lifeguard who is in a loveless marriage with Jimmy (Moustapha Mbengue).
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