Eponine (1984)

When I began to write and shoot my film Eponine in 1975 I wanted to consciously test this and other concepts of analysis with a film the character of a mother without a face the suggestion through sound of an outside world that one never sees since the film takes place within the walls of a house from which one does not go out the creation of an imaginary topography The success of this film showed me that the concepts worked Thus for me theory is not a dead demonstration A living theory must be drawn from a personal experience Michel Chion