Heaven in a Garden

Focused on his neighbours Le Ciel dans un jardin continues the conversation begun with the previous film which is imbued with melancholy in the face of the impossibility of returning This future mourning gives a particular colour to his observation a combination of indifference the repetition of the days governed by the principle of subsistence and acuity the contemplation of small things and of lost moments The value of the shots finds itself enhanced from the tactile closeup that captures the elementary actionscultivating eating smokingto the widest frame espousing with a final gaze the frontiers of world that is about to be incorporated by the filmmaker as an interior landscape a mental object Emmanuel Chicon