After Intranquilles, Joachim Lafosse continues its work of surveying human relations with Silence. A film of unsaid, doubts and absences, soon available in physical format. The ideal opportunity to (re)see this powerful drama engulfing within the mechanics of shame and lie.
The Dark Part
Thirty years ago astrid (Emmanuelle Devos) silently lies behind her husband's media stature (Daniel Auteuil). But when their two children shake the vase of a dark past in search of answers, the balance of this family cell is wavering.
Better keep quiet with Silence, since the film itself feeds on its own retention. That's why the summary will be brief and the maximum evasive criticism of this silence so important that it constitutes the title of the feature film.
Since 2004 and its Private folie, the Belgian Joachim Lafosse is digging again and again the questions of human relations. That he explores the links between a mother and her son performed by Virginie Efira and Kacey Mottet Klein in Continue, or more recently the relationships of a couple affected by the bipolarity of one of its members with Intranquilles, Lafosse brilliantly painted the questions of reconstruction, resilience, the theme of shame or lie. And it's not with Silence that he will derogate from this rule...
Clear dark
In Silence, shadows contaminate. They slip onto faces, reduce frames, draw bodies, slice pieces. Delfosse composes his scenes like Le Caravage his paintings. But where the Italian painter suggests in his paintings the mysteries of faith and religion, Delfosse abandons in his darkness the intimate part of the impalpable secret that sleeps in each of us. "The back-shop" of Montaigne, this part of darkness more or less great, inherent in the human condition and its intersubjectivity, which we all try to keep secret but which actually exists, at the bottom of the circumvolutions of our brains.
In Silence, secrets slamming. Silence and its consequences swallow the film, defile the characters, maculate the image. The result is a greenish night photography, filmed through muddy water, disturbed by suspended particles. An aesthetic choice that is particularly well suited to the gently venomous atmosphere of the feature film, to bring closer to the image of the last one Kirill Serebrennikov : Tchaikovsky's Woman.
Disorder Actor
DAniel Auteuil Moreover, he is not at his test incarnation of troubled characters. Besides his detours at Haneke, it is mainly his role in The adversary of the Nicole Garcia which resonates particularly with Silence. Adapted from a fact-divers transmuted into novel by Emmanuel CarrèreThere are many parallels in this 2002 project: the true story first, the ambivalent personality, the desire to escape from the other's gaze, even if it completely perverts his own personality and obviously the necessity of lying.
The two films will also have in common a certain indecentness in the flow of violence that they yet carry, each in its own way. A restraint that re-focuss the film on its desire to dissect human relations rather than on a voyeuristic display of a very sordid fact-divers...
Conclusion
You will understand, Silence In Lafosse's filmography he perfectly fits as much as he offers Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Devos two striking roles. The aesthetic choices of the film leave behind a mysterious and exciting atmosphere, which makes it possible to forgive some unwelcome lengths which, however, do not fill the pleasure of viewing in front of this dramatic drama. In short, a feature film (surprising) that needs to be discovered or reviewed thanks to its next release in physical format!
Data sheet
DVD Zone B (France)
Publisher: Blaq Out
Duration: 99 min
Release date: May 21, 2024
Video format : 576p/25 - 2.35
Soundtrack : French Dolby Digital 5.1 (and 2.0)
Subtitles French
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