L'affaire Valérie
- Documentary
Overview
A film-maker travels through mountain villages and along the shores of Alpine lakes to investigate the disappearance of Valérie 20 years earlier. She allegedly murdered a Canadian tourist before disappearing without a trace. At least that is how the narrator, who was passing through the region at the time, remembers the story. Over the course of the interviews, the elusive Valérie seems to disappear a second time, literally engulfed by the Alpine landscape, magnificently captured on film by François Caillat. A haunting, imposing landscape, where chasms and precipices become metaphors, characters in a work of fiction that the camera turns into a documentary. A film in the form of an essay in which the director takes his work on memory to its highest degree of abstraction.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 7, 2004
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- ARTE,Archipel 33>35,Ina
- Director
- François Caillat
- Cinematography
- Jacques Besse
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0885064