Le rituel de Fontainebleau

This film is built as a funeral ceremony it conveys an investigation on the underworld In an environment of devastated telluric forces onehundredyearold trees from the Fontainebleau forest were uprooted by the storm of 1999 winter There is a superb officiating priest in a black tuxedo The film refers to the everlasting cycle of death the extraction of a corpse by a young nymph reminds us of Caravaggios paintings this ceremony is full of ablutions and jewellery a flowy golden path to a wonderful mirror through which the miracle of resurrection takes place