Le Pays lointain

Louis returns to his distant homeland - where he was born, where his roots are - to tell his family that he is going to die. He takes with him the family he built for himself in exile.

These two families, the one you inherit and the one you make for yourself, meet, clash, join forces to get to know Louis better, to help him tell his story. The dead also return for the occasion. Les revenants.

Jean-Luc Lagarce rolls up his sleeves and "dissects" Louis, this ordinary man, with ferocity, lucidity and love. His characters are powerful, strong men and women with no history other than that of their lives. They are beautiful because they are ordinary. And Jean-Luc Lagarce's distinctive style delivers the wounds and exaltations of his characters with a sarcastic, biting, sometimes bitter but always complicit sense of humor. From wide shots to close-ups, from meticulous details to puzzling ellipses, everything swarms, sparkles and explodes to express the urgency of living, desiring, understanding and loving. Meticulous, incisive language sketches the troubles of the soul and echoes the poetic echo of the ordinary man confronted with the way the world looks at him.

Luc Sabot