"The myth says the salamander can pass through fire into a new life"

"Catherine falls in love with a complete stranger in a for her foreign Brazil. Will she succeed in reinventing herself - like the myth of the salamander that needs to walk through fire to do this?"

The attractive forty-year-old CATHERINE (Marina Foïs) leads a seemingly uneventful life in Paris. For years, she took care of her very ill father. When he dies, she reluctantly travels to Recife in Brazil to visit her sister AUDE (Anna Mouglalis) and gain some distance from her old life. On a sunny beach, Catherine meets a young Brazilian named GIL (Maicon Rodriguez), who enjoys his carefree life full of partying and flirting. A passionate affair develops between the unlikely pair, with an intensity that almost consumes Catherine. Like a salamander, she walks through this passionate fire, ultimately reinventing herself.

“A film of indisputable aesthetic value, a daring and unconventional look at the dynamics of a couple that experiences desire against all rules of common sense. Behind melodrama touches, Salamandra hides a 'western of the soul' where the firearms are attraction and desire, a story of mutual dominance and colonisation that is consumed through the bodies.”
Beatrice Fiorentino, General Delegate Venice Film Critics’ Week

CAST
CATHERINE - Marina Foïs
GIL - Maicon Rodrigues
AUDE - Anna Mouglalis
PACHÁ - Allan Souza Lima

Written & directed: Alex Carvalho
Writer: Alix Delaporte, Thomas Bidegain
Based on the novel by: Jean-Christophe Rufin
DoP: Josée Deshaies
Editor: Joana Collier, Agnieszka Liggett
Producer: Julie Viez, Sven Schnell, Patrick André, Alex Carvalho

Production: N Filmes (BRA), High Sea (FRA), cinenovo (FRA), san cinema (GER)

Genre: Drama
Duration: 116 Min in color
Format: 1,85:1 / Dolby 5.1 / DCP
Language versions: Portuguese (Brazilian) and French language with English subtitles