Tornadoes
Tornado Alley, a region in the center of the United States, faces devastating tornadoes every year. While some study them closely for protection, others turn them into a profitable spectacle.
| Director | Annabelle Amoros |
| Actor | L'équipe de Tënk |
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Tornadoes is a film that doesn’t immediately let itself be pinned down. It teases us with a subject and a line of interpretation, only to surprise us and take us somewhere entirely different. Tornadoes, and the US-American fascination with them, serve as a decoy subject — a pretext to delve into the society of the United States, a lens through which to expose its contradictions and excesses. What the film offers is a clever, subtle, and biting critique. It magnifies everyday details that, as the film unfolds, take on the air of near science fiction: the voice of an insurance company lurking through suburban streets; newscasts revelling in natural disasters; storm chasing turned into a tourist attraction; burgers sold to survivors… The tornadoes seem to crystallize a society’s taste for the obscene and the catastrophic — a society that obstinately chases these destructive phenomena and, more metaphorically, its own downfall.
Marie Cornen
Production and Distribution Assistant
Tënk France
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Français
37 mn
Language: Français
Subtitles: Français -
English
37 mn
Language: English
- Année 2023
- Pays France
- Durée 37
- Producteur Paraíso Production
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French
- Résumé court In the United States, tornadoes are violent and feared. But they are so impressive that they can also be a very profitable spectacle...
- Ordre 2
Tornadoes is a film that doesn’t immediately let itself be pinned down. It teases us with a subject and a line of interpretation, only to surprise us and take us somewhere entirely different. Tornadoes, and the US-American fascination with them, serve as a decoy subject — a pretext to delve into the society of the United States, a lens through which to expose its contradictions and excesses. What the film offers is a clever, subtle, and biting critique. It magnifies everyday details that, as the film unfolds, take on the air of near science fiction: the voice of an insurance company lurking through suburban streets; newscasts revelling in natural disasters; storm chasing turned into a tourist attraction; burgers sold to survivors… The tornadoes seem to crystallize a society’s taste for the obscene and the catastrophic — a society that obstinately chases these destructive phenomena and, more metaphorically, its own downfall.
Marie Cornen
Production and Distribution Assistant
Tënk France
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Français
Duration: 37 minutesLanguage: Français
Subtitles: Français37 mn -
English
Duration: 37 minutesLanguage: English37 mn
- Année 2023
- Pays France
- Durée 37
- Producteur Paraíso Production
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French
- Résumé court In the United States, tornadoes are violent and feared. But they are so impressive that they can also be a very profitable spectacle...
- Ordre 2
