Language: french / english subtitles
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One last night without sadness
Fleeing the temptations of the city, two young marginals squat a cabin in the heart of the forest. Torn between their desire to live and their impulse to die, they live a love story out of time.
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ATALAYA
“Atalaya” means watchtower in Spanish. It’s also the name of the Chilean islands where, in 1998, debris was found from the boat belonging to the filmmaker’s seafaring father, Gerry Roufs, lost at sea. It’s also a key word of the book written by her mother, Michèle Cartier, which recounts the search she undertook to find him. ATALAYA is the filmmaker’s pilgrimage to Cape Horn, camera in hand, memories flowing through her mind; an essay on her reflections on that inescapable grief, on how memory is affected by the presence of absence, and on how life naturally follows its course. Short…
