What was it about David Oelhoffen’s French film Nos retrouvailles [trailer] that attracted selectors?
Jean-Christophe Berjon : His short Sous le bleu showed a son that humiliated his father in a terrible way. The father-son relationship is reversed in the film, the adult is the child and vice versa, because the adult is the son and the teenager who humiliates is a little like the father, a loser who still believes in his lucky star. He turns up suddenly in his son’s life after 20 years and leads him into a trap. What is very beautiful in the film is that the son is so happy to meet his father and being able to love him that he lets him fall into the trap. Very fine directing, excellent actors: even if the references are a little overpowering, the film is similar in style to Jean-Pierre Melville and in directing terms, to the icy coldness of John Huston. And what drew them to Horse Thieves [trailer, making of] by Belgian director Micha Wald? Jean-Christophe Berjon : I was amazed. It reminds one of Ridley Scott’s Duellistes because it’s also about someone who is following another inextin
