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Original Film Title: MIRARI
Director’s Name: Jérémie Brunel
Writer’s Name: Jérémie Brunel
Producer: Olivier Bernaert
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming : France
Language: French
Runtime: 1 hour 22 minutes 49 seconds
Film Description:
Arthur, Anne Marie Le Gal’s son, is a school dropout. A teenager
standards of a typical teenager, he isolates himself in his room
and spends most of his days taking photos.
photographs. Each snapshot he takes takes him into other spheres, allowing him to escape.
escape. Unwilling to conform to his parents’ imposed
by his parents, Arthur decides to run away. Anne Marie and Pierre Le Gal
are worried by his sudden disappearance. They decide to set off in search
even though Pierre is reluctant and even thinks that running away will
will allow Arthur to emancipate himself. In reality, Arthur finds refuge
in the old store of his maternal grandfather, Georges, recently
where he pursues his quest and his work through frescoes,
books and perfumes. He decides to defend this unique heritage
that his parents want to get rid of. So Arthur takes the time
to immortalize what time will inevitably turn to dust.
But isn’t life itself just a mirage (Mirari in Latin)? What
Are we really to each other? Anne Marie and Pierre Le
Gal eventually find their child, but isn’t it already too late?