あらすじ
John Billeter, known as JB, an internationally renowned expert in Oriental civilizations, has agreed to return to Sri Lanka at the request of the UNESCO to decode a book of crystal, a treatise on memory that Buddha dictated in his old age. The book has been discovered near the Tamil-dominated part of the island and it lays down a challenge for JB whose past is overshadowed by his wife's suicide. He met her in Sri Lanka, where they fell in love before the tragedy occurred. He meets several remarkable characters on the war-torn island...
クレジット
Director (1)
俳優 (5)
映画製作・配給会社 (4)
- 製作代表 : Gemini Films
- Foreign production companies : Madragoa Filmes, Light Night, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
- フランス国内配給 : Les Acacias
クレジットタイトル詳細 (9)
- 製作代表 : Patricia Plattner, Paulo Branco
- Screenwriters : Patricia Plattner, Seth Linder, Didier Haudepin
- フォトディレクター : Matthias Kaelin
- 作曲家 : Jacques Robellaz
- 編集担当 : Loredana Cristelli
- 録音技師 : Daniel Ollivier
- 原作者 : Claude Delarue
- 報道担当（映画） : Vanessa Jerrom
- 装飾 : Jean Bauer
メディアギャラリー
技術面詳細
- タイプ : 長編映画
- ジャンル : フィクション
- サブジャンル : 人生ドラマ
- 言語 : フランス語
- 出身 : スイス, ポルトガル, フランス
- Original French-language productions : 不明
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About
"A European specialist in religious texts is summoned to Sri Lanka to decode a sacred text dealing with memory while he turns to alcohol to forget. He decodes his own past in it, encounters different char-acters and, thus, fulfils his destiny. On the way...
A film with characters from East and West confronted with very concrete problems (personal and political conflict; attachment and mourning; interventionist or passive attitudes), but also confronted with the inexorable cycle of life and death. A film on the strata of memory.
Personal memory: the life of individuals with their past, their loves, their acquisitions. And collective memory: culture, religion, ethnic roots. A film on the relativity of things: "Whatever happens, nothing happens". That is one of the adages of this story... But it is also a film with palm trees, umbrellas, women in red, yellow and blue, aspirin, music, bedrooms, dancers, flowers, ice-cubes and many birds."
(Patricia Plattner)
