« Festa Major », an idea behind the party – Liberation

For a few days at the end of each summer, Fillols, like other villages Occitaniametamorphoses. Daily life is stopped time to honor the tradition of « Festa Major ». Fillols is then only « F. », as a card named at the start of Festa Majormysterious hearth of an ancestral feast, where the inhabitants, won by a spirit of a centenary troop, begin a celebration with great fanfare. Jean-Baptiste Alazardhimself from the town of the Pyrénées-Orientales, joins, camera in hand, with these few days of bruising time when the DJ set techno mingle with endimanized evenings reminiscent of the good old days: we laugh, we dance, we put on costumes for amazing parades in a vast round in the form of an outlet.

During a picnic, a participant deplores the abandonment of one of these curious practices: « dropping », a sort of group therapy during which a quidam delivers what he has on his heart to a crowd both attentive and sufficiently avinated so as not to remember very long. The description of this ritual evokes something of the shape of the film, composed of a pot-pourri of images caught on the fly, snatches of adjoining, outdated ceremonies and post-bewinding lucidity, which follow one another for a little over an hour.