Lucie Borleteau : 2014
Fidelio: Alice's Journey
Alice, a mechanical engineer, joins the crew of the ship Fidelio. She leaves behind her loving boyfriend, Félix, who waits for her back at port. She soon realises that the Fidelio is an old friend: the first vessel on which she worked, and which is still captained by the man who was the first great love of her life, Gaël, with whom she had an affair that was left unfinished. The powerful return to the past mingles with what Alice reads in a diary she finds in her cabin, which belonged to her predecessor who died on board in strange circumstances. Reading the diary unexpectedly reveals to her aspects of her own life that are difficult to face. Torn between a powerful past love that she could never fully enjoy, the security of a stable relationship and her sometimes irrational desires, Alice risks going under, overpowered by the ghosts that linger onboard the Fidelio. As the days go by, on the high seas or in exotic ports, Alice's physical crossing becomes an emotional voyage from which she will emerge a different person. Lucie Borleteau's feature debut premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2014, and screened in competition at Sevilla European Film Festival 2014.
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