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Note of intent

I want to make a film that questions the power of storytelling the everyday life. To do this, I imagined the anatomy of a news item. While sometimes funny, the film is relatively dark and cynical. The characters and the spectator are not spared. For me, it means questioning determinism which consists in thinking that every being becomes the story that we make of him. I want a (lively film) movie full of life, close to reality, following the characters fall.

Synopsis

A hiker disappeared on the pass. Magda, a new tobacconist in the village below, and her friend Eliane, an old gossipmonger, will get a little bit too interested in the case.

Visual concept

In this rural thriller, I want to mix the aesthetic of genre cinema with documentary reality. To show violence, I imagine an off camera allowing the viewer to fantasize the darkest elements of the story, like Magda who imagines things which don’t exist. My native village and its surrounding mountains will be filmed in a timeless and anxious realism.