France/ 2021/ 74’
DIRECTED BY: Robin Hunzinger
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gauthier Gumpper
EDITED BY: Benoit Quinon
SOUND: Marc Namblard
PRODUCED BY: Milana Christitch for Ana Films
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: Nominated for the Beeld en Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award
After the death of his grandmother Emma, Robin Hunzinger and his mother Claudie find a carefully preserved collection of letters which Emma received from a girl called Marcelle. In the 1920s, Emma and Marcelle met at school in Dijon. Secretly, love blossomed between the two teenage girls, but after two years they parted ways. Marcelle developed tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where her letters to Emma became increasingly fervent and desperate, and her rebellious behavior aroused the attentions of three other seriously ill young women.
Complementing the sparse photographs of the women, Hunzinger combines archive footage, avant-garde films, and music to create a sensuous, poetic atmosphere.
After studying History and the History of Fine Arts in Strasbourg University, Robin Hunzinger took on a course on the Cinema at Jussieu, Paris, with Jean Rouch and Bernard Cuau. In 1993, while at Sarajevo, he wrote his first film. Among his main works are : “Closing your eyes”, “Ou sont nos amoureuses” and ” Notre Camarade Tito” His films have been presented in numerous festivals : at the Paris Cinéma du réel festival, the Lussas documentary films festival, the Rotterdam international film festival, but also the Thessaloniki, Beyrouth, FIGRA festivals