After ten years away, Jacques Pruez, an unmarried, 50-year-old, modestly successful actor, returns to his home village to comfort his dying mother. His father Yvan, a family barber who's counting on his "successful" son to support him in his old age, refuses to believe that his wife is sick and insists that her doctors are killing her. She dies, and Jacques finds out that Yvan is not his real father. Besieged by memories of his childhood, the village and the past, Jacques wanders the streets at night, reliving the moments that set him apart from the rest.
Acting
Nolot's haunted stillness carries every frame.
Direction
Night walks that feel like memory itself.
Cinematography
Empty village streets as psychological landscape.
Director
Jacques Nolot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nolot often explores working-class French masculinity in crisis; this is his most autobiographical work.
Nolot plays Jacques AND his own brothers—casting himself as his own fragmented reflection.
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