Lisbeth Koutchoumoff Arman
Published on November 17, 2024 at 11:04. / Modified on November 17, 2024 at 11:07.
In the whirlwind of family life, at the heart of couple life and its very telling silences, also in the middle of life since he is 45 years old and has just learned that his father is approaching death. end, the narrator of Summer at Jary applies a well-established method: do not respond to barbs and remain silent. “I learned to breathe in these cases. Inhale slowly. We let it go and then it passes. Lots of air. Small flow. In life, often, when things aren’t going well, you just have to think about something else.”
In his novels, in his screenplays too, with Lionel Baier among others, Julien Bouissoux sketches the feeling of existential emptiness which can strike anyone who inhabits our societies of excess and excess comfort. After January (L’Olivier) in 2018, a farce on the world of work where an employee, increasingly sidelined and more and more determined to tame the growing emptiness of his days, Julien Bouissoux reconnects here with the vein of Travel lightwith at its center already a character in search of a life other than his own.
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