The Diagonal Force

In La Force diagonale, several men and women reflect on how to live with a turning point in their life and possibly be transformed by it. The film weaves subtle connections between these personal narratives, before turning to the work of political philosopher Hannah Arendt—the human capacity to begin, to introduce something new into the world we share, is as fundamental today as it was then. Through careful tensions between space and time, sound and image, movement and stillness, the film renders this human dimension tangible—it is always threatened and yet ever irrepressible.