Bobo and Michael Lonsdale are alone in the Château de Versailles. Together, they are walking around this ghostly place of power. The director Pippo Delbono offers a singular journey in this exceptional palace.
Self
During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a hotel room in Paris to another in Budapest, from Istanbul to Bucharest, the journeys weave a fabric of the contemporary world. Its testimonials – some famous, others anonymous – say or dance their vision of the universe.
Explores the strange routine of three of the Baczynski siblings: from 5pm to 8pm every day, for over thirty years Dorota, Tadeusz and Mordechaj have sat on a blue velvet sofa to wait for death to arrive. This ritual gives them the illusory belief that nothing fatal will happen to them for the rest of the day. But their other brother Leopold, who has always been excluded from this ritual, spies on them to check when the sofa will become free…
The film is the autobiographical history of the theatre director Pippo Delbono, who recounts the most meaningful moments of his life, up to the present day, along with the characters he has met during his career. It is a poetic statement, a portrait of his own artistic journey from theatre to reality and back. The actors play themselves, a typical element of Delbono's work.
