프리센스 Princesse (2010)

 

• 프리센스 Princesse (2010)
• Genre 장르 : 애니메이션
• Director/Writer 감독/작가 : 프레데릭 트렘블레이 ( Frederick Tremblay)
• Producer 책임 프로듀서 : Frederick Tremblay
• Production 제작 : Frederick Tremblay
• DOP 촬영감독 : Frederick Tremblay
• EDITING 편집 : Frederick Tremblay

 It is dark, brooding, suspenseful and has a hint of surrealism. A woman is trapped in a cabin every day, unable to leave the premises for fear of the wolf outside further damaging her horribly disfigured face. 

The main example of this was a Canadian film from Frederick Tremblay called The Princess; a black and white stop motion animation using marionette puppets. It is dark, brooding, suspenseful and has a hint of surrealism. A woman is trapped in a cabin every day, unable to leave the premises for fear of the wolf outside further damaging her horribly disfigured face. All down one half has clearly been previously savaged, presumably by this wolf. The husband returns every evening (is he the wolf?) and the same routine is repeated: eat tea, he gets drunk, then effectively rapes her. One evening he brings home an injured woman and everything is about to change.

There are clear but immensely engrossing themes of Fraudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis at play here. From the uncanny nature of these puppets, to the unconscious desire, to the notion of the doppelganger. The sound design perfectly sets the tone of the simmering tension and the claustrophobic, closed space of this cabin.