The film-maker goes back to Bologna where he did a stay twenty years earlier. The ties of a patchy, lacunal and tragic memory begin to interweave the Italy of the “years of lead” and that of Berlusconi.
EA3 (Troisième exercice d'admiration : Jean Cocteau)
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In September 2008, at the crack of dawn, a small film crew met in a house in Provence to give substance to a memory. During his childhood, whilst watching television, Vincent Dieutre heard Jean Cocteau’s La Voix humaine—created by Berthe Bovy with the Comédie française in 1930. He set out to...
A shadow in the woods, a sunny summer afternoon. Antoine and Philippe part without saying goodbye. That same day, a blond girl writes their names on a window of her house. Her mission is to heal other people’s wounds, help lost lovers to forget or disappear.
Like Pelléas and Mélisande, two young men meet up in the building's parking lot at night to confess their love and flee from the master of the house. How to reappropriate Maeterlinck's burning symbolism, with male bodies and in the half-light of today's Paris? By blurring the lines...
