A taste of poison

• Duration: 1 h 05
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Cie Mossoux-Bonté

A mixture of hair buns and shaved heads, five scientists conduct a battery of tests on their guinea pigs, looking for positions and movements capable of releasing the tension which builds up in our heads and bodies. They also perform experiments on themselves until, gradually, the whole haphazard process starts to slide off the rails...
Always illuminating, Mossoux-Bonté return with another acidic look at the hypocrisies of the human comedy, delivered with a characteristically acute sense of observation (see also their recent Histoire de l’imposture). This time round the Belgian duo have chosen to focus on some passions as widespread as they are toxic: addictions, perversions, dynamics of domination, unsavoury acts… Each new test unleashes a flurry of dislocated, distorted gestures as the body expresses the social chaos born out of our collective imagination.
But the behaviour of the so-called scientists turns out to be highly suspicious, and their laboratory bears an uncanny resemblance to a mad house.