A filmmaker and his crew try to enter the passionate world of Port-Royal and of Jansenism. Another Age of Louis XIV comes to life, the age of Pascal, Racine and of the “Friends of Truth”. The film itself comes up against the unanswerable question of grace.
Direction
Dieutre turns his own failure into the subject
Writing
Dialogue that circles grace like nervous moths
Production
Period reenactments that deliberately collapse
Director
Vincent Dieutre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Port-Royal was the 17th-century French convent where Jansenist doctrine — predestination, human depravity, God's arbitrary grace — took root. Pascal wrote his Provincial Letters defending it; Racine was educated there. Dieutre treats this intellectual fortress as both unattainable and erotically charged.
Eva Truffaut, appearing here, is François Truffaut's daughter — a ghost of French New Wave haunting a film about the impossibility of filming history.
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