Lorenz Merz : 2013
When we meet Zoé, it has all already happened to her. Zoé is young and alone, on the road, clearly running away. From a painful past? From herself? With not a franc to her name, she roams through an anonymous part of northern France. Via desolate petrol stations and dismal suburbs, she eventually reaches the English Channel, where she slips aboard a ferry as an invisible passenger. Some time later, she arrives in Brighton, clad in a stolen winter coat. She drifts aimlessly but deliberately, leaving behind the people and places she encounters. Her sorrow does not dissipate until a stranger offers her a cherry pie, on a desolate beach. Beautifully atmospheric, with minimal dialogue and narrative, and shot in a silvery palette often with an extremely shallow depth of field. Lorenz Merz's feature debut premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2013, and screened in the Bright Future section at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.
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