Absurdist theater legend reads bedtime stories while staring into your soul. Sweet dreams?
These tales for children under three years of Eugène Ionesco are illustrated by drawings of children. The presence of the storyteller is preponderant on the screen. The images of his aged face filmed in close-up create a strange atmosphere.
Direction
Zéno's unflinching close-ups demand you confront time itself.
Production
Children's drawings clashing with Ionesco's weathered face = pure cognitive dissonance.
Director
Thierry Zéno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ionesco, father of the Theater of the Absurd, spent his career exploring meaninglessness—making him an objectively unhinged choice for children's entertainment.
Thierry Zéno specialized in films about marginalized artists and outsiders; this may be his most unsettling collaboration.
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