Alexis Manenti in a road romance: trailer for Fuel in the Arteries
Pierre Le Gall’s first feature film, acclaimed at festivals, is released in cinemas in December.
Discovered at the Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival, Fuel oil in the arteries marks the revelation of a young filmmaker, Pierre Le Gall. Its queer romance between two truck drivers played by Alexis Manenti and Julian Świeżewski has won over critics, but also the public who have already been able to discover it in the numerous festivals where it has been presented and awarded.
Very recently, during the Saint-Jean-de-Luz film festival, the director told us about the genesis of this project, which had a long gestation and coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I had a script project, it was a love story between two men. But I knew that as a young filmmaker I also had to tell something about our contemporary world. The starting point of the film was to tell myself: we spend our lives working, even if it is with passion, and deep down what time we have left to offer to the people we love.”
On the occasion of the first confinement, he realized the importance of truck drivers, highlighted a few weeks after other essential professions such as hospital staff. “This shows our lack of understanding of their importance for the economy. And I realize that without trucks the shelves of our supermarkets are empty… There I begin to become passionate, I see men and women in reports explaining that they do this job with passion, to the detriment of their emotional life”. Pierre Le Gall had the subject of his first feature film…
Fuel oil in the arteries will be released in cinemas on December 2. Trailer:
