The Island at the Center of the World

“I was really young when I was first raped. I thought of telling this story someday, the story behind this picture. I lacked the courage. If the film could speak for me, then, I could.”

In the end, one is dead and the others are alone, although the truth is that they were already alone long before his death. Now all of this is gone and there is no point in looking back.

Alexander just got out of prison. Lonely and silent, he finds some comfort in his friendship with Robson, his co-worker.

A young man is warned by his boyfriend that he is leaving. Melancholia becomes part of his life until his friends take him to parties, amid these adventures, he can finally rediscover happiness.

The image depicts a reunion.

I just arrived from the future, and people still go to the movies there. Thinking about it, maybe it's better to start like this: I just arrived from the future, and people still go to the movies there.

Maybe that's what they like, a little bit of melodrama.

In my dream, we talked about how our wishes didn't make sense to anyone else, but you hadn't died, and I was Chris Marker.

A conversation between two or more people.

I don't want to be right.

A group of people float around the discussion of what really means to play a character.

This is a cinema film.

On New Year’s Eve, Fred and Alexandre meet to discuss past, future, and a love that they cannot understand.