Marguerite et le Dragon

Marguerite is a small girl videoed by her parents, in a family chronicle of a child’s first steps. The dragon is the disease, mucoviscidosis, which takes Marguerite away when she is six years old. Images of peace, a fleeting happiness, the power of the moment, gradually contaminated by disease, the sombre coming to terms with pain and its domination. Between the scenes of Marguerite, are silent shots of animals, dogs, cats, sheep, ducklings… images from Lamento, filmed after Marguerite’s death for a film never finished. Juxtaposed with the images of Marguerite, they create a wonderful, enigmatic world, a fairy-tale landscape that is hers alone, as if her inevitable disappearance had been transformed under our eyes into this budding new world. (Yann Lardeau)