Silhouette/Shadow

Silhouette/Shadow

(Silhouette sinon l’ombre), G. Xingjian - A. Melka - J.L. Darmyn, 2003
French version / Czech subtitles, 85 min

A man in a car sees himself walking all alone in a desert city. The shops are closed, the house are abandoned and the doors are locked. He plunges into his memories and imagination, entering into a pure state of creativity. Soon, he conjures images of a fragile yet unfinished life and death.It unravels scenes of human relations – man and woman, an individual and the mass – as well as childhood nostalgia and war memories…A solitary artist who is always in quest of emptiness and an indefinite spaces, thus leads one into an immeasurably subtle and poetic film.