After a world premiere at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Where is Rocky II? directed by Pierre Bismuth will open Art Basel, the prestigious contemporary art fair. The movie will be screened on 13th June at the Stadtkino, with the director, the Hollywood actor and writer Mike White and the film score composer Hugo Lippens. According to Art Basel, Where is Rocky II? is “at once a documentary, a crime thriller and a work of art – and ultimately something else entirely”.
Screened a month ago as a world premiere in the biggest documentary film festival in North America, Where is Rocky II? has been noticed by the critics. Hollywood Reporter refers to it in its highlights of the festival, NOW Magazine considers it as “creative, original and eminently watchable”, whereas Globe and Mail underlines that the film is “unique”. Indeed Pierre Bismuth’s movie blurs the categories between fiction and documentary, but also between thriller and comedy. Its complex but playful narration can satisfy both our intellect than our desire to be entertained. Hugo Lippens attended as well the Hot Docs Festival and his music was also noticed by the critics. “Memorable” (Andrew Parker, Toronto Film Scene) and “Top-notch” (Victor Stiff, Popoptiq), the score plays with the thriller’s codes and enhances the mystery of the plot. It is without saying that the music is one of the elements which strongly creates the fiction’s feeling in the film.
