The Loved One
Director Arnaud Desplechin
Countries France
Duration 70 min
Synopsis
The idea of filming The Loved One came on the day French filmmaker Arnauld Despléchin knew his father’s decision of selling the family house in Roubaix, Northern France. If this turned out to be a pretext to bring the camera into the different corridors and divisions of that same place, browsing through old photos and opening old drawers and closets full of memories, it’s his father history and the one his own mother Thérèse (the director’s grandmother), who passed away when he was only 18 months old, that become the heart of this deeply nostalgic and personal narrative.
The idea of filming The Loved One came on the day French filmmaker Arnauld Despléchin knew his father’s decision of selling the family house in Roubaix, Northern France. If this turned out to be a pretext to bring the camera into the different corridors and divisions of that same place, browsing through old photos and opening old drawers and closets full of memories, it’s his father history and the one his own mother Thérèse (the director’s grandmother), who passed away when he was only 18 months old, that become the heart of this deeply nostalgic and personal narrative.