Limagorium

"Before I left today, I almost forgot to answer a lot of e-mails."

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.

They say that the world got silent. They say that you went far away, with the cries, the laughs, the tomorrows. They say that the world has disappeared. But Oscar, he hears them whisper at night. Behind the walls, far from the men, at the end of the corridors…

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.

Flowers and suitcase in hand, Aurélien arrives in Paris to see Fanny again. He can’t forget their summer love. But Fanny lives with her boyfriend, and didn’t expect him to visit her.