GENRE
Supernatural Thriller
DIRECTOR
Andrew Desmond
STATUS
Completed
DURATION
88 min
YEAR
2019
After being informed of the sudden death of her long lost composer father, a young virtuoso violinist, Rose, inherits an old mansion in which he used to live. There, she discovers her father’s final work: a mysterious music score marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles, her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, little by little, starts to unlock secrets concerning her father’s past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a somber plan imagined since the very day she was born.
DIRECTOR
Andrew Desmond
WRITER
Arthur Morin
Andrew Desmond
PRODUCERS
Laurent Fumeron
Rodolphe Sanzé
Daniel Goroshko
Julien Loeffler
Fabrice Smadja
CAST
Freya Tingley
Simon Abkarian
Rutger Hauer
James Faulkner
Matt Barber
SALES
ARRI Media International
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
The Project Film Club
Featuristic Films
Tasse Film
CTB Film Company
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Creativity Capital
One World Entertainment
DISTRIBUTION
Screen Media Films (US)
Blue Finch Film Releasing (UK)
REVIEWS
★★★★ "The Sonata is a solid Gothic ghost mystery that will easily entertain” - The Hollywood News
★★★★ "Shot with classical composition, The Sonata remixes low horror with the higher arts” - SciFiNow
★★★★ "Janis Eglitis' exquisite cinematography is beguiling in the proper sense" - Eye For Film
★★★★ "Andrew Desmond's incendiary take on the Gothic subgenre is as mystical and melodic as a Schubert sonata" - The Playlist
★★★★ "First-time feature-director Andrew Desmond brings such confident panache to the supernatural thriller “The Sonata" - Los Angeles Times
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Fantasporto - WORLD PREMIERE (Portugal, 2019)
BIFFF Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Belgium, 2019)
LUCCA Film Festival (Italy, 2019)
BIFAN Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (South Korea, 2019)
Popcorn Frights Film Festival - US PREMIERE (USA, 2019)
Lincoln Center New-York - Scary Movies XII (USA, 2019)
FrightFest Festival - UK PREMIERE (UK, 2019)
FilmQuest Festival - Best Director & Best Score awards winner (USA, 2019)
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