Raphaël Bouvet

A complex, intimate, strangely serene, and challenging exploration of sexual desire as a hiding place. Sex makes a promise of something so intense to the characters that they feel they must enter it in secret - through violence, or under the guise of an unrelated transaction, or by rationalizing its dangers away, or through using it as material for a purely aesthetic project.

On the threshold of adulthood, 17-year-old Pierre becomes obsessed with his aunt Nadia (Beatrice Dalle, Betty Blue and Trouble Every Day). A flamboyant mathematician whose intellect clashes with her alcoholism and fatalistic view of life, Nadia is on a path to self-destruction. As Pierre discovers his budding sexuality, he attempts to rescue his beloved aunt from herself. DOMAIN is a dark, sexy mediation on the intersection of two lives with very different trajectories. Featuring intelligent discourse and Hitchcockian references, filmmaker John Waters declared “you’ll be left breathless by the sheer elegance of this astonishing workout.”