Les Roches Rouges: Bruno Dumont at the height of a child(ren) (review)

The author of L’Humanité et du P’tit Quinquin depicts the 400 blows of a group of 5 kids on the ocher cliffs of the Riviera. A captivating odyssey where the adult he is disappears entirely behind them

Childhood in the cinema inevitably clashes with the adult gaze. If the cinema machine can be placed at the height of a child, it will always keep this overhang capable of engulfing with its voracity the feelings and imagination of the model. From then on the latter is condemned to be viewed from a distance, deprived of all subjectivity. Yet with its red rocks, Bruno Dumont68 years old, works a miracle. The author of L’Humanité and Le P’tit Quinquin manages by some magic to knowingly have his film dispossessed by 5 year old toddlers.