a political and societal parable on contemporary Algeria

Réda is a “son of”. A young adult without real scope who owes his career only to his father and to the sometimes troubled connections that he has established with the powers in place. When he died, Réda sees his daily life threatened. And its tense natural instability when he discovers that in the mirrors his reflection gradually fades. Adapted from the novel by the writer Samir Toumi, “erasure” is a political and societal parable on contemporary Algeria. The abstraction with which the director approaches his main character, voluntarily leaving his burial psychology out of scope to make him a purely metaphorical victim, sometimes prevents the spectator from making a gateway to the story. But the staging fills this limit, by immersing us in a world where the visible and the invisible, the field and the out of the field, weave unstable and tormented links.