« L’Aventura » is pareo takeoff with Philippe Katerine – Liberation
THE Bigger on the beach, that day, there were all four of them, Sophie and Jean-Phi and the children, Claudine and Raoul: Sophie remembers being a little ashamed. What day it was already? The day of ice or the one when there was a Mojito bar, when Raoul pooped in the sand? It was at the Bobba or the other, or later, when they slept at the gîte at Francesco? Did they stay one or two nights? And why did Claudine cried? They try to remember it, and their attempts to debrief, of the bordeelic conversations which they record as their road-trip in Sardinia, a story is gradually born, fragmentary, and with it a film takes place, frantic, in the footsteps of the holidays. The mixture, a chaos precisely entirely orchestrated by the assembly, between the overflow of information and the permanent uncertainty about what happened, where and when, makes the salt of The Aventura by Sophie Lettourneur, projected at the opening of the parallel selection of ACID, scheduled by the filmmakers members of the association of independent cinema for its broadcast, on this first day of Cannes 2025.
Where and when already? This « already » of the question is the temporal mode of Aventura, Somewhere between indicative and conditional, the time of the fuzzy anecdote, as a third way of existence. Blurred but also, without a doubt, intense, emotionally exhausting, as a family trip. As a couple but with the