After returning home from a fishing trip in a state of
delirium, Ildutt decides to cure himself when he catches the eye of
Christina, his grandmother's nurse. Ready to do anything to make the
girl like him, Ildutt throws himself into a confused and desperate
search for normality.
"The idea of this character is the starting point for the Screenplay and
the film. A young man fishing for shellfish on the beach, living on the
ephemeral line between land and ocean. It's difficult for him to
'function' in today's society. He is a sort of 'idiot,' like Don
Quixote, like Charlie Chaplin's The Tramp and many others. Clearly, an
idiot is the opposite of an imbecile. He is an idiot in that he is in
love with truth, which puts him in conflict with reality. Ildutt is,
above all, similar to Parsifal, the naïve hero of the Holy Grail saga.
The moment he sees Christina and, even more, the moment Christina sees
him and somehow awakens him with her glance, Ildutt comes alive. His is
a search, a search for her. He reacts in a disorderly way, but he is
reacting." (P. Breton)
Biography
film director
Pascale Breton
Pascale Breton, after working as a geographer, became a scriptwriter for cinema and television toward the end of the 1980's. She has worked with Catherine Corsini, Arnold Barkus and Gianfranco Albano, among others. In 1995, he directed the medium-length film La Huitième Nuit, which won a prize at Clermont-Ferrand. He then made three short films, including Les filles du Douze, which won at the Festival of Brest. In 1999, he left Paris for Great Britain, where he directed Illumination, his first full-length film.
FILMOGRAFIA
La huitième nuit (mm, 1995), La riserve (cm, 1998), Les filles du douze (cm, 2000), La chambre des parents (cm, 2001), Illumination (2004).