Next Floor
A heterogeneous company is feasting at a big table. The waiters can barely bring new dishes fast enough, while two musicians are doing their best to entertain them. Suddenly, the head waiter announces “next floor,” and the entire table, including the banqueters, falls one floor down. The feast resumes, with the guests merely a bit gray and dusty. The movie, which can be taken as a gloomy grotesque, a Dantean allegory, or a parable of the gradual and inevitable collapse of consumer society, may recall the films of Jan Švankmajer, Roy Andersson, and Guy Maddin, but it betrays its own, completely original poetics. The film has won awards at fifty film festivals, including Cannes, and received the prestigious Jutra Award, as well as a Genie.
- Canada
- 2008, 12 min
- Director: Denis Villeneuve
- Director of photography: Nicolas Bolduc
- Editor: Sophie Leblond
- Screenplay: Jacques Davids
- Music: Warren Slim Williams
- Cast: Jean Marchand, Mathieu Handfield, Sébastien René
- Producer: Phoebe Greenberg, Penny Mancuso
- Production: PHI Group
Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve is a French-Canadian director. His most recent film, Blade Runner 2049 (2017), won two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects, as well as a BAFTA for Best Cinematography. His other films, including Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), and Incendies (2010), have won numerous awards and received international critical acclaim. Denis is currently in production for his next feature film, Dune (based on Frank Herbert's book). He will also work on the adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel, The Son.