Peter HANDKE
L'Absence
Venice 1992 – Official
Selection
In
this t3ale, the scenes are simultaneously clear and labyrinthine.
Four
people, the old man, the young woman, the soldier and the player walk
around an imaginary topography across continents. They escape from their
everyday existence. Each one of them starts out, alone, only to meet up
and form a group, which is to move along like an expedition. Suddenly they
come across a clearing, a city, a desert, an ocean. They all follow the
ardent desire that drove them to leave.
Through
their conversations, their discussions, rejoinders, monologues and dreams,
they tell the story.
One day, the old man disappears, he who had guided the group. What remains is the search and the dream of finding hem again.
Cast: Jeanne MOREAU – Alex DESCAS – Bruno GANZ – Sophie SEMIN – Eustaquio BARJAU
France – 1992 – 35mm –
Color – 1/66 – 110mn
