Joe
Summer, Picardy, Joe, a 20-year-old woman, is about to leave town for a new life, when Clotaire and Colas, two childhood friends/lovers return to town. Wandering together in the ruins of the small, industrial town, the trio reminisce about their utopian past.
Unmistakably French in its melancholy, this treatment of an apocalyptic subject (the film takes place after some kind of global disaster) takes La Jetée as its primary reference. Like Chris Marker, Félix Fattal builds a dynamic story from static images in Après nous, le déluge. The near-total lack of movement encourages the viewer to look into the texture of the imagery itself, lending it a haptic quality.
In a land at the end of the world, it is said that a magic forest exists that can make appear the being most desired by travelers who stay there, a creature from a distant memory, a dreamed present, or an uncertain future.
