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ADIEU
A feature-length film
In Production Envers Compagnie & Utopie films
ADIEU is inspired by a Balzac novella written in 1830,
under the shock of the Napoleonic Wars (in particular the episode
of the Crossing of the Berezina), their traumatic tales,
and the first emergence in France, around the same era,
of "feral children", young creatures adrift in distress,
often naked, bereft of speech, upon whom physicians
attempted experiments in civilizing.
A burning passion, amidst the heart of the Russian Campaign.
And then everything ceases. The man, years later,
will reenact the battle so that the woman he loved
in the core of this war, now turned wild child
– uttering only that single word, Adieu, repeated in echolalia –,
might recognize him, and unfold her tongue once more
beyond this sole word that kills her.