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Coup de Grâce

Available online: 21/03/2025
Director Clara Van Gool
Choreographer Jordi Cortés, Damián Muñoz
Spain and Netherlands 2011
A film about the collapse of a friendship, about what is broken and what cannot break.

Synopsis

Coup de Grâce is a film about the collapse of a friendship, about what is broken and what cannot break. After a long separation two men meet again in a massive building at a remote location. In the course of the evening and an icy night, they fight a weaponless, exhausting duel.

It tells of how feelings of revenge can never be transformed into resignation in spite of the passing of time. How the lust for life burns, smolders, rekindles and then slowly dies. This duel ends with neither winner nor loser.

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Coup de Grâce is a film about the collapse of a friendship, about what is broken and what cannot break. After a long separation two men meet again in a massive building at a remote location. In the course of the evening and an icy night, they fight a weaponless, exhausting duel.

It tells of how feelings of revenge can never be transformed into resignation in spite of the passing of time. How the lust for life burns, smolders, rekindles and then slowly dies. This duel ends with neither winner nor loser.

Full credits

Section
Online Specials
Director
Clara Van Gool
Choreographer
Jordi Cortés, Damián Muñoz
Production countries
Netherlands and Spain
Production year
2011
Duration
0 minutes

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