Grand Jeté

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This special limited edition slipcover (designed by Aaron Needham) is limited to 1,000 units and is only available here at VinegarSyndrome.com!

Altered Innocence has been dedicated to releasing LGBTQ & Coming-of-Age films with an artistic edge since their inception in 2015. With a library of features and shorts from around the world, mixing genre with art-house and everything in between - Altered Innocence is committed to curating an esoteric library that is without peer in the current marketplace. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

Nadja (Sarah Nevada Grether) is an aspiring ballerina with the scars to prove it. A masochistic pursuit at her dream career has left her body battered, a map of the tumultuous torture dancers withstand on a daily basis. Working now as a dancing instructor for children, rather than as the dancer she always wanted to be, she decides to visit the adult son she has been estranged from since he was a child. Mario (Emil von Schönfels), raised by his grandmother, is similarly focused on his physical form and the abuse it takes to earn the physique he craves. When Nadja shows up at Mario's doorstep, it starts a relationship that is as sensitive as it is taboo shattering, placing Grand Jeté alongside other provocative European films like Christophe Honoré's Ma mère and Bertrand Blier's Beau Pere. Isabelle Stever's film, a selection of the Berlin International Film Festival, is a powerful character drama about familial boundaries and the lack thereof, with sensational (and daring) performances from Grether and Schönfels and striking, intimate cinematography by Constantin Campean. 

directed by: Isabelle Stever
starring: Sarah Nevada Grether, Emil von Schönfels, Susanne Bredehöft
2022 / 105 min / 1.50:1 / German DTS-HD MA 5.1

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray
• Interview with Actors Sarah Nevada Grether and Emil von Schönfels
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Other Trailers
• English subtitles

Grand Jeté - U.S. Trailer from Altered Innocence on Vimeo.