La vie des morts

At the Mac Gillis’, four families get together after the suicide attempted suicide of one of the cousins. While Patrick is at the hospital, everybody share the house. Arnaud Desplechin’s first medium-length film casts a singular light on his work. Everything seems already there : the weight of community on individual fates, the overwhelming family, the ordinary oddness... « What Desplechin films is less the complexity of life than the way we live it » (Jean Douchet, Les Cahiers du Cinéma).