The Waves
Les Vagues
Sophie Roger
2017
France
18’
“I like the sense of wonder that arises on the fringes of my everyday life” (Sophie Roger). In Dialogue of the Tree, the director evokes her bond with her friend Pierre Creton through the landscape. In The Gardeners of Little Paris, we see neighbours growing vegetables in a communal garden. The director whispers fragments from Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques. With The Blind Spot, we will learn nothing of the origin of desire, but it will become visible in the flowers of squash, rose and artichoke. In The Waves, a shared gaze portrays the friendship between Mohammed, a Sudanese refugee, and the filmmaker.