39th edition
23-31 january 2027
France
1961 Fiction 11 min
A simple young man is abandoned by his fiancée. He wants to write her a farewell letter, but the objects around him, as if by a secret agreement, get in his way...
With : Pierre Etaix
Screenplay : Pierre Etaix, Jean-Claude Carrière
Image : Pierre Levent
Editing : Léonide Azar
Music : Jean Paillaud
Production : Paul Claudon
Distribution: CAPAC
This first film was an occasion for Etaix to familiarise himself with the techniques of cinema. "It's in the editing room that a few good souls came to his help and showed him how to judiciously cut a film. He smilingly tells us today that he hardly knew the difference between what was necessary to edit the image and the sound. But for him, technical questions, like the logistics of filmmaking, are necessary tools. They're only there to serve the idea" (R. Marx).