Two success-obsessed kids meet river-dwelling nihilists. What could possibly go wrong?
This film proposes the allegory of a social drift with all the power of romantic fascination that it can evoke. It is about a meeting oftwo young people formatted by a culture of success with two men embodying a nihilistic and dematerialized vision of society. This work treads the fine line that separates the hero from the loser.. Are these two men messiahs or a pair of wandering vagrants? Is this descent on the river closer to a descent into the fires of hell or rather an initiatory journey?
Cinematography
The river becomes a character—hypnotic and threatening
Acting
Buret and Gillet's fragile privilege vs Capitain's magnetic chaos
Direction
Terrier-Hermann walks the hero/loser tightrope with surgical precision
Director
Philippe Terrier-Hermann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andy Gillet was primarily known as a model before this; his ethereal detachment became his signature acting style.
Released post-2008 financial crisis, the film captures a generation's sudden suspicion that the ladder they'd been climbing led nowhere.
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