A man is waiting for his metro. Comes a strange creature, made of granite cylinder (this kind of thing that prevent cars to go in some streets) comes to him, and start a danse. The man doesn't want to danse with it and try to escape. But now, he is cursed : the creature will follow him. Anywhere. Forever. No matter how hard he tries to escape, it will find him. So he has to deal with. Until he sees other people like him : one followed by a creature made of road signs, one followed by a kind of escalator...
The use of a very concrete material for animation prevent from the feeling of « ireality » of 3D creations in a filmed world. And there is something absurd, but not without sense, of these creature made from urban material. Are they double of the people, are they the emissaies of a bored city searching for distractions, or creatures of judgement ?
Distracting and inventive, a film without speeches and theory, but a curious universe with its rules...
The beach's bar is crowded, full of high colored people, tattooed and strong. A girl and a man meet and go to the beach. They are actors, filmed with a neat photo. But when they start their affair on the beach, something happens. Their tatooes get alive, start to move on their skin while they are making love on the beach. The girl has a siren on her chest, while the body of the man is full of agressive tatooes : centaurius, scorpio, taurus... While the bodies encounters so do the tatooes, representants of the untold meeting of soul, and the mythological fight that starts tells us the story of an orgasm.
Showing the orgasm is impossible. Words are weaks, and actors can't let us enter in their mind deep enough. Cinema is impotent for this matter, and realisators have experienced various way to metaphrise it. This film is astonishing by the way it tries to show us more than the bodies. The story of the bodies is common, while the story of the « surface » seems much deeper than this one. The centaurius aims the siren with his arrows, the salamander hug her to death, the tiger swallow her... Shall she fight back or abandon herself ? There is no fear in her innocent eyes, is it a fight or danse ? The actress looks like she feels the presence and the movements of the siren, that embodies her soul, and the pleasure, running on and under her skin.
Technically, the animations were created and incrusted on the actors skin. The result is very convicing, animation seems really projeted on the naked skins, with fluidity and a fusion close to perfection. Both images are /melanging/, and the spectator's eye recieve both stories. Something was shared.
Both animations and real filmed support have a care for precision and esthetic. Lights are imaginatives and some plans surprising. Beyond the very concrete story, and scenes depicted, there is no vulgarity, no shoking scene. Of course this is not an animation for children, but this film is, far away from any ordinary erotism, a real experience of cinema, quite a lesson of animation, of storytelling and of poetry.
Nina, 23, is on the lookout for love. Throu her, a portrait of a generation, shown as the product of a liberal education that gave them no references, no values. Noboby near her seems to have any value, either. She dreams of an ordered world, easier to understand.
The crudity of nude scenes tells us something : there is no separation, the body is not a protected area. But the voice off tells us all the untold things, eveything that is better avoided. When she gets pregnant, the comment starts by « when I cas a child, even when I had made a wrong thing, there was never real consequences ». This young girl, disapointed by this liberal education voted only once « for right-wing. My parents were shocked ».
Showing on screen a meaningless and ordinary life is not easy. The actors are well chosen to give an identity to those weak characters.
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