However, director and screenwriter Cato Kusters, sticking to the heartbreaking eponymous book written in 2019 by Fleur Pierets, will introduce the melodramatic element quite quickly, which will transform the adventure after the fourth marriage. The intense relationship between Fleur and Julian will be shaken by the illness of one of them, summarizes the programmer.
Instead of presenting a linear narrative, the director will indeed tell this story in a fragmented way, and it is up to the viewer to put things in order: it is a fairly innovative film from this point of view,” judges Xavier Le Falher. “A bit like a puzzle”, this “fragmented story” tells the end before the end. “The story of Fleur and Julian” thus mixes images of the present with others, filmed and presented as archive images, giving this story an even more human and “universal” dimension, and emphasizing the way memories are constructed.
To interpret this close-knit couple formed by Fleur and Julian, Cato Kusters called upon Laurence Roothooft and Nina Meurisse, “an actress who is starting to make a name for herself in French cinema,” recalls Xavier Le Falher, citing “The Ravishment,” “Green Algae,” and “The Story of Souleymane”. She delivers a fantastic new performance here.
