Lélé et l’an 2000

“A 50m2 petit-bourgeois flat built early this century in the shade of an overhead metro line. The ruler of this domain is 95-year-old Léonce Fischer, who has now been a widower for six years. Nicknamed Lélé by his mother, Léo by his wife and called “Papa” by his only daughter – that is to say me – Nadine Fischer, a 57-year-old single woman with no children, who is behind the camera. The camera (I) decided to film what could be an all too human comedy that begins the instant I open my father’s front door and double-lock it behind me finding myself in Lélé’s world. This world, like any other world… but perhaps there are several worlds, although this is not the issue at hand…, or perhaps it is?just a little. This is a world divided up between elementary particles, his filial duty and my own, his comments as he reads Le Monde, women? a necessary evil and unfathomable mystery, the columns in his accounting ledgers and divine numbers, the frozen food to alleviate widowhood and avoid mad cows, his constant eye on the water heater’s vestal flame. Our bickering and haggling. His departed dreams. My wanderings.” (Nadine Fischer)