CAITI BLUES

By Justine HARBONNIER

LES FILMS DU 3 MARS - as SALES All rights, World (except France) / DISTR

Documentary - Completed 2023

Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.

Festivals
& Awards

ACID 2023
Visions du Réel 2023
Burning Lights
Hot Docs 2023
Canadian Spectrum section - DGC Special Jury Prize / Canadian Feature Documentary
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Art - Culture, First film
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, CANADA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 84 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Justine HARBONNIER
    • Producer(s)
    • Julie PARATIAN (SISTER PRODUCTIONS), Nellie CARRIER (Cinquième maison)
    • Synopsis
    • Caiti Lord had always dreamt of being a singer. A born-and-bred New Yorker, she studied at the best music schools and performed on Broadway. Her future was sparkling bright . . . But today, the only thing that glitters is the snow that falls on the desert. Self-exiled in Madrid, New Mexico, far from the glitz and glamour of the Big Apple, Caiti’s looking for a way forward. In this former ghost town, surrounded by mountains and old hippies, between her day job slinging drinks to tourists and the sleepless festive nights, her life is slipping by. That’s the story she tells each day on her radio show. As the United States sinks into madness and the world turns terrifyingly absurd, Caiti feels increasingly suffocated. She’s about to turn 30 and her future has never felt so uncertain. How can she find her way back to a place of meaning and self-expression?