A painting worth millions, a father he never knew, and Super 8 memories that refuse to stay buried.
Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." But Michel discovers that his father's tumultuous and secret past comes along with the valuable painting. Meanwhile, Clara, a middle age Spanish-Argentine mother gets a strange present from a now dying childhood friend in Buenos Aires. It's a roll of Super 8 film which brings back very strong, and emotionally charged memories from the 1970s and before.
Cinematography
Dreamy Super 8 interludes that blur past and present.
Acting
Marisa Paredes carries decades of unspoken grief.
Director
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Marisa Paredes
Clara
Féodor Atkine
David
Bruno Putzulu
Michel
Didier Flamand
Kusnet
Andrée Tainsy
Princesse Czerry
Elisabeth Kaza
Comtesse Mariassy
Aurélien Recoing
L'homme au cutter
Bérénice Bejo
La fille sur le bateau
François Dunoyer
Le père de Michel
Lucía Sánchez
La patiente de Clara
Rodolfo De Souza
L'homme au nez rouge
Marie Henriau
Le chef de service
Serge Renko
Docteur Wagner, le chirurgien esthétique
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cozarinsky, himself Argentine-French, often explores exile and fragmented identity—this film is essentially autobiographical camouflage.
The painting MacGuffin is based on real Latin American art smuggling networks of the 1970s, when military regimes looted cultural heritage.
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