Poursuite

Blanche has been promoted to a job in another city. She and Damien and their kids thus change places, to this place on the oceanside ; Blanche felt like changing something. But something is different. Damien dreams of a car accident, of a roadcurve above the ocean... Of a woman’s face. Then he meets this woman, whilst running on a road above the ocean, precisely… She is Ariane. Damien’s arrival has made her reappear. She is dead. : she died in the car accident Damien dreamt of. She is here, in flesh and blood. He sinks into an irrepressible passion with her, in her arms. Blanche has no idea what’s happening of course, but she sees Damien slowly drifting… Around them, the world is as good as empty. There is nothing left but matter.

In search of a missing friend, Astrid investigates to understand why, nine years ago, her friend chose to end their relationship without explanation. The investigation becomes introspection: friendship and relationships with others are called into question.

Trude was my grand-mother. An admirable woman, a survivor from the camps, a terrible woman. The imperious will to survive. I wouldn’t film her, ever. I didn’t want to look back, I didn’t want to hear of death, I didn’t want survival. I wanted life. I wanted to be free. Until Trude’s unbending way of speaking started to bend. I then understood the time had come to come to her and look at her, freely. To film life and death, my own way, at the present.

A suburban city that aspired to be utopian, with colorful buildings scattered between three expressways, currently undergoing renovation, "La Grande Borne"; a week in the life of a real estate agent in Nièvre, from nature-loving hipsters to Nevers employees looking for housing near schools; the daily life of a few "year-round campers," neither homeless nor homeowners, but a cross between the two, rarely seen, rarely talked about. These three places, these three situations, each approached with the perspective it calls for, allow us to put into perspective and raise a few questions on this theme: how do we live together today?