Jérôme Bonnell : 2005
Pale Eyes
Fanny acts like a normal child, plays in the park, learns the piano, has fights with her brother and occasionally sulks in her room. But Fanny is in her mid-thirties and suffers from a psychological illness. At her teacher brother Gabriel's house, where she lives, she has a very tense relationship with her sister-in-law, Cécile. After discovering that the latter is having an affair with a local antiques dealer, Fanny steals the family car and embarks on a pilgrimage to her father's grave in Germany. On the way she punctures a tyre in the middle of a dark forest where a lonely woodsman, Oskar, comes to her aid. With neither speaking the other's language, they create their own with their hands and eyes, and very soon a relationship develops between them. Depicting events in a realistic fashion, but with an almost folk-tale quality, this simple yet exquisite, wordless romance is slow-paced and beautifully shot, with a refreshingly ambiguous ending.
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