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You and a Guest are cordially invited to attend the
NY press Screening for the Thriller
You Go To My Head
Quad Cinema
34 West 13th Street
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
10 am
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DELFINE BAFORT & SVETOZAR CVETKOVIĆ STAR IN
DIMITRI DE CLERCQ'S THRILLER
YOU GO TO MY HEAD
OPENS VALENTINE'S DAY (FEBRUARY 14) IN NYC
& FEBRUARY 21 IN LA
In person or remote Interviews available with
Director Dimitri de Clercq,
Actors Delfine Bafort, Svetozar Cvetkovic
and Director of Photography, Stijn Grupping
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First Run Features announces the U.S. theatrical release of Dimitri de Clercq's award-winning debut feature You Go To My Head. The psychological thriller will open in New York City at the Quad Cinema on Valentine's Day (February 14, 2020) and in Los Angeles at Laemmle’s Glendale on February 21.
In a desolate stretch of the Sahara, a mysterious car accident leaves a young woman lost and alone. Jake, a reclusive architect, finds her unconscious. He drives
her to the nearest doctor, to discover that she's suffering from post-traumatic amnesia. Intoxicated by the woman's beauty, Jake claims to be her husband. He names her Kitty and takes her to his remote desert home to recuperate.
As Kitty struggles to come to grips with who she is, Jake invents an elaborate life they can share – the life he has always yearned for. Little by little, Kitty begins to fall in love with him. But when shreds of her past begin to surface, Jake takes steps to ensure he will not lose the love of his life...
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"It’s not hard to see why Dimitri de Clercq’s first solo feature as a director has become a film festival favourite: You Go To My Head is a psychological thriller that increasingly grips and unsettles... and also benefits from gorgeous Moroccan landscapes lovingly shot, and spectacular architecture."
-Andrew Nickolds, Take One (UK)
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"With echoes to the cinema of Antonioni, Hitchcock and Kubrick, de Clercq seeks and manages to build an eminently visual and sensorial experience."
-Laura Riera Forteza, Peli o Manta (Spain)
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“What stays on your mind is the film’s imagery. Painted like an abstract work of art on a huge canvas, every scene stands out like the perfect visual form.”
-Shilpa Sebastian R, The Hindu (India)
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"★★★★★! A film has to move me. And that is exactly what You Go To My Head did.
I loved this film, and will go to the ends of the earth to proclaim such sentiments.
When you experience
something this moving and gorgeous and unique, you can’t help but spread the word. And You Go to My Head is – from my perspective – a perfect film. It’s a memorable masterpiece. In other words, it 'went to my head'."
-Michael Klug, Horror Freak News
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Select List of Festivals & Awards:
Caïro International Film Festival
(Egypt) – International Competition
Filmfestival Kitzbühel (Austria) – International Competition
Cambridge Film Festival (UK) – Official Competition
Oaxaca FilmFest (Mexico) – Official Selection (Emergence Competition)
Belgrade Auteur Film Festival – FAF (Serbia) – Official Selection (Special Screenings)
Bogota Film Festival (Colombia)
Bronze Pre-Columbian Circle Award for Best Film
Aesthetica Short Film Festival – ASFF (York, UK)
Best Narrative Feature Award
Arizona International Film Festival (USA)
Festival Grand Prize
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Cinematography
Houston International Film Festival - WorldFest (Texas, USA)
WorldFest Special Jury Remi Award for Best Theatrical Feature Film
Production
WorldFest Gold Remi Award for Best Directing (Dimitri de Clercq)
The Houston Broadcast Film Critics Best Picture Award
The Houston Broadcast Film Critics Best Actor Award (Svetozar Cvetkovic)
New Jersey International Film Festival (USA)
Award for Best Feature Film
Grenzland-Filmtage Selb (Selb, Germany)
First Prize: Audience Award For Best Feature
Film
The Valley Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
10 Degree Hotter Award for Best Foreign Feature
Salento International Film Festival (Tricase, Italy)
Award for Best Cinematography
Orlando Film Festival (Florida,
USA)
Best Foreign Language Film Award
Myrtle Beach International Film Festival (South Carolina, USA)
Best Foreign Feature Award
Golden Door International Film Festival (Jersey City, USA)
Award for Best
Cinematography
Southampton International Film Festival (Southampton, UK)
Award for Best Cinematography in a Feature Film
Award for Best Editing in a Feature Film
FICARQ, International Festival of Cinema and Architecture (Madrid, Spain)
Special Jury Mention for the Mise en Scène
FilmQuest (Utah, USA)
Award for Best Cinematography in a Feature
Flagler Film Festival (Florida, USA)
Best International Production Award
Best Cinematography International Award
Glendale International Film Festival (California, USA)
Best International Feature Film Award
Best International Feature Film Director
Best Feature Film Cinematography Award
Best Feature Film Make Up
Twister Alley Film Festival (Oklahoma, USA)
Best Foreign Feature Award
Best Actress Award (Delfine Bafort)
New Renaissance Film Festival (London, UK)
Award for Best International Feature Film
New Renaissance Film Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Award for Best Director
Award for Best Actress (Delfine Bafort)
Award for Best Cinematography in a Feature Film
Ibizacinefest (Ibiza, Spain)
Award for Best Feature Film
FIC AUTOR, Author’s International Film Festival (Guadalajara, Mexico)
Award for Best First Time Filmmaker
West Coast Film Festival (California, USA)
Orson Welles Award for Cinematic Excellence - Director - Dimitri de Clercq
Georges Méliès Festival Award - You Go To My Head - Dimitri de Clercq
Jury Award for Best Actress - Delfine Bafort
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An Interview with the star of You Go To My Head, Delfine Bafort
In Dimitri de Clercq’s award-winning psychological thriller You Go To
My Head, Delfine Bafort gives a masterful performance as a woman in search of her memories following a car accident.
Taken in by a stranger (played by Svetozar Cvetković) who claims to be her husband, Bafort’s character must search to find her identity and the truth about her past. It is an engrossing journey, largely set within a white house in the Sahara desert, that sees Bafort’s character morph from a figure of vulnerability into something unexpectedly different.
Close-up Culture’s James Prestridge spoke to Delfine about being the inspiration for You Go To My Head, working in the Sahara, her intimate performance, and more.
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An Interview with the filmmaker of You Go To My Head, Dimitri de Clercq:
On Being Inspired By Delfine Bafort And The Sahara
Dimitri de Clercq’s debut feature is an absorbing and stylistically alluring psychological thriller set on a desolate stretch of the Sahara. In this in-depth interview with Close-up Culture’s James Prestridge, Dimitri opens up about the making of the film and being inspired by Delfine Bafort and the Sahara.
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Biography of Filmmaker Dimitri de Clercq
Producer turned filmmaker, Dimitri de Clercq began his producing career working with directors Mathieu Kassovitz (Café au Lait), Alain Robbe-Grillet (The Blue Villa) and Raúl Ruiz (The Golden Boat, Time Regained and
Savage Souls). In 1993, he won an International Emmy Award for producing Ray Müller’s controversial documentary The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl.
A native Belgian, de Clercq grew up in the Middle East before majoring in film direction and production at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2002, he started his own production company, CRM-114, named in homage to maverick filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
De Clercq’s fascination with the desert led him to produce several award-winning films set in desolate environments, including Afghan writer-director Atiq Rahimi's Earth and Ashes (2005)
and Iraqi director Mohamed Al-Daradji’s Son of Babylon (2009). The sepia-hued, parched wilderness of the desert was also a key inspiration for You Go To My Head, de Clercq’s feature film directorial debut.
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Credits:
YOU GO TO MY HEAD
Nationality: France, Germany, Belgium
Language: English with some French, Flemish & Berber - Subtitles: English
2018 - 116 minutes - DCP 2K - Scope 2.35 (Technovision) - Dolby Digital 5.1
Production companies: CRM-114 / The Terminal
World Sales: WIDE
A First Run Features Release
DIRECTOR: Dimitri de Clercq
PRODUCER: Dimitri de Clercq
WRITTEN BY: Dimitri de Clercq, Pierre Bourdy & Rosemary Ricchio
BASED ON AN IDEA BY: Dimitri de Clercq & Matt Steigbigel
EDITOR: Tobias Beul
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Stijn Grupping
COSTUME DESIGNER: Marielle Robaut
MUSIC: Hacène Larbi
SOUND: Novica Jankov, Dragan Ledjenac, Matthias Kristen
CO-PRODUCERS: Zoran Tasic, Céline Thongsavath, Peter van Vogelpoel
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Thomas Gottschall, Evelyne Faure, Lionel Lambert
CAST: Delfine Bafort, Svetozar Cvetković, Arend
Pinoy
FOBE HOUSE: designed by Guilhem Eustache
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For a screening link and more information, please contact:
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