Sébastien Bidault

When their daughter decides to get a divorce, Coline and Andre can’t come to terms with it as they are very fond of their son-in-law. The only way to keep seeing him is in secret. But for how long can they lead a double life?

1956. Algeria is a French colony. Fernand and Helene are madly in love. Fernand is an activist, fighting for independence alongside the Algerians. Helene is fighting for Fernand’s life. History will irrevocably change the course of their destiny.

Casting sauvage is a documentary. All the screenplay's scenes are performed by professional actors going through auditions. The same set-up is employed in all the scenes: same lighting, sets, two cameras. Most of all, Casting sauvage is a story about Rémi, a young man in search of his identity, who travels through France on a scooter, looking for his father.

In a summer Paris, during an epidemic, a ghostly character from another time discovers our contemporary urban life. His contemplative wandering, from afternoon to dawn, gives him ideas of alexandrines; those of Melancholia, written by Victor Hugo in 1856...