Moving. Demanding. Unclassifiable. Rare. These are the words given to the gay film that Director Géraud Champreux is invited to present in a sleepy seaside town, but those same words also describe this irresistibly funny and sometimes absurdist comedy. Géraud is drawn into the lives of the locals including the handsome young projectionist obsessed with him, the snotty hotel des...
Seated on a podium in a cinema as if for a typical Q&A after a screening, Franoise Lebrun, actress here behind the camera (but in front of it too), begins by the end and politely warns her interlocutor: it will be a question of a work in the style of a quilt, of a crazy quilt. That is, of a filmed autobiography where the "I" appears unruly, like a patchwork. With the help of w...
Arnaud, a student remaining alone in Paris during the summer, is obsessed with the wall where the names of the Parisian soldiers who died in the 1914 war are engraved. He finds himself confronted by one of these soldiers, who invites him to step out of time and to bring comfort to his loved ones.