Synopsis

Musique Chapelle is the story of Jennifer Rosieres, a twenty-three-year-old piano virtuoso. Jennifer has lived her life with a terrible secret. When she gets the chance to compete in the finals of the world-famous Queen Elizabeth Competition, a painful childhood experience comes flooding back to her memory.

Program Note

​ To compete in the Queen Elizabeth Competition, one of the most prestigious classical music competitions, twenty-three-year-old talented pianist Jennifer returns to Belgium, the country she left as a child. However, for Jennifer, this homecoming is not a journey of nostalgia and excitement, but a terrifying encounter with memories of a dark past that have haunted her subconscious. After living in the United States since Everybody's Famous!, director Dominique Deruddere returned to his native Belgium more than 15 years later to explore his protagonist's story. In his homeland, the final of the Queen Elizabeth Competition, the chosen subject of the film, has a very unique set of rules. A week before the final, the twelve finalists, completely cut off from the outside world and without cell phones, must live together in a chapel-turned-mansion to practice their final song. Isolated competitors with limited space and time constraints, they face the pressure of their own futures and strive to outperform each other. With subtle echoes of Agatha Christie's novels, there is no doubt that this compelling subject provides cinematic inspiration. Deruddere weaves an intricate puzzle of parental devotion, desire, and conflict over their young daughter's talent, intertwining the tragic events of the past with the emotional turmoil of Jennifer's present-day life under the pressure of the competition.Taeke Nicolaï delivers an outstanding performance as Jennifer, leaving you wondering if she's actually playing the piano. Dominique Deruddere's direction and mise- en-scène turn moments of potentially static piano playing into emotional dynamism, making the movie a pleasure to watch. (Jin. Cho)

감독

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  • 도미니크 데루데르 / Dominique Deruddere
  • 벨기에 작가이자 감독인 도미니크 데루데르는 브뤼셀 신트루카스에서 영화를 공부했다. 그의 졸업작품인 ‘킬링 조크’는 브뤼셀국제영화제에서 수상했다. 데루데르의 다섯 번째 장편 ‘에브리바디즈 페이머스!’는 오스카 외국어영화상 후보 등 여러 상의 후보에 오르거나 수상했다. 미국과 벨기에에서 작업을 이어간 그는 이후 5편의 장편 영화를 더 연출했다. 최신작 ‘뮤직 샤펠’은 그의 열 번째 영화이다.
    
    Belgian writer/director Dominique Deruddere studied film at Sint Lukas in Brussels. His thesis film Killing Joke went on to win an award at the Brussels International Film Festival. Deruddere's fifth feature Everybody's Famous! received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film. He continued to work in both the United States and Belgium and has since directed five more feature films. The Chapel is his most recent production and his tenth film.