Ahead of its world premiere in Competition at Cannes Film Festival, the Match Factory has shared a first look at Coward, the new drama film from Lukas Dhont.
Coward marks Dhont’s third selection for the festival, following his Camera d’Or winner Girl and Grand Prix-winning Close.
In the film, Pierre, a young Belgian soldier, wants to prove himself on the battlefield during the First World War. Behind the frontlines, he meets Francis, who is asked to find a way to boost morale.
On his return to the festival, Lukas Dhont commented, “I am deeply honored to once again take part in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Coward is the work of many and my most ambitious project yet. A film about love and death, creation and destruction. A film about survival and how, sometimes, even in darkness, something beautiful manages to grow. Coward is a tribute to those who, throughout the centuries, were sent to fight—and those who tried to escape it at any cost.”
The film reunites the director with longtime co-writer Angelo Tijssens and is produced by Michiel Dhont. It is the first of the filmmaker’s features to be produced under the Reunion, the production banner founded by the Dhont brothers.
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