Léo, a twenty-seven-year-old engineer, has to sell his late father's farmland to a rare metals drilling company. His father, a farmer, committed suicide three years earlier. However, strange occurrences have led him to believe that the project has been polluting the river since his childhood. He then embarks on a surreal investigation that forces him to confront his grief.
Acting
Oldfield's deadpan despair carries every surreal turn.
Direction
Prost balances grief and absurdism without tipping either way.
Cinematography
The farmland looks beautiful and cursed simultaneously.
Director
Lucie Prost
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Prost shot on actual contaminated farmland in rural France; some crew got sick from local water.
The title 'Fario' refers to a brown trout species that dies in polluted water—Léo's childhood fishing spot becomes the film's silent witness.
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