Archives
Edition 2016
Films
Rey is a filmmaker. While attending a retrospective of his work at a museum, he watches a young performance artist. He follows her to the museum exit. Her name is Laura, she is younger than him. They fall in love and get married quickly. They live in a big house near the sea. Months go by and Rey dies in a motorbike accident. Laura finds herself alone in the house. While mourning the loss of her husband, a period both painful and sweet, she meets a strange man, a man-child with a speech disorder, whose face and body are the same as Rey’s. The couple’s words and gestures prior to Rey’s death will be relived through this man, and Laura will find in that a sort of fascination what will set her free.
-
Cast:
Mathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, Jeanne Balibar -
Original Title:
À Jamais -
Country:
France, Portugal -
Year:
2016 - 86’
Director
Benoît Jacquot
For over thirty years, Benoit Jacquot has been the author of an unclassifiable work, sometimes experimental and minimalist, sometimes classical or academic, but always exciting. The filmmaker has been obsessed with the feeling of love and psychoanalysis, but also with literature, since he already has a dozen adaptations (novels, plays and operas) to his credit. In 1975, he signed his first feature film, L’assassin musicien, based on a novel by Dostoyevsky. La Désenchantée (1990), a masterpiece with radiant Judith Godrèch, was the beginning of his international recognition. 3 Hearts, bringing together Charlotte Gainsbourg, Benoit Poolevorde, Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, is his fourth feature film to be selected in the official selection at Venice. More recently, Diary of a Chambermaid, with Léa Seydoux in the lead role, was selected in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
