

Chevalier
Synopsis
Emma, 11 years, is having fun miming a surrealistic discussion while watching a couple arguing… Even though Emma has taken off her glasses so as not to see what is going on, when the confrontation ends, she catches the man in a constricting, violent gesture… Faced with the man’s threats, she prefers to flee and finds refuge in the forest adjacent to the campsite where she lives. There, she has a whole range of activities that help her kill time and avoid confronting her difficult daily reality…… but very soon, the violence she avoids catches up with her.
Chevalier is a project that I have been carrying for almost 6 years, since the first months of my son's life when I was walking with him in a pushchair in the forest.That's when I discovered this incredible setting, a campsite overlooked by this noisy, violent motorway... Very quickly, an embryo of a story came to me. It was a new approach for me as a scriptwriter and director who first wrote stories and then looked for the places to embody them. This time, it was the place that spoke to me and inspired me. This film is an ode to children, to their ability to overcome the horrors of life, to their strength of action and to their will and desire to live. This film also speaks of a subject that is dear to me, violence against women in all its forms, whether physical, with Patricia being violently beaten by Emma's father, or psychological, with Emma, alone, having to feed herself and manage to survive. By saving Patricia, Emma manages to save herself. Her chivalrous gesture, for the sake of others, will finally get her out of the hole in which life and her father had trapped her.
Szenario
- Frédéric Zeimet
Bild
- Rae Lyn Lee
Ton
- Luca Theis
Musik
- Daniel Balthasar
Trailer und Fotos
Frédéric Zeimet

