Camping du lac

FIRST SCREENING: The director is stranded on a campsite in Brittany. She embarks on a cinematic voyage of discovery to the inhabitants of this place by the lake, skilfully combining the real with the imaginary.

Motor breakdowns are often a blessing for cinema. In any case, the breakdown that prevents Éléonore from reaching the coast is most welcome. What's there to film by the sea? How fortunate, then, that she ends up stranded at Loch Ness in Brittany. Even more fascinating than the legend surrounding the French sea monster are the permanent residents of the campsite where director and leading actress Éléonore Saintagnan is now staying. In this refuge of barter economy, gentle eccentricity and cheerfully fractured biographies, it's worth keeping your eyes and ears open.

Fascinated, the filmmaker develops a new understanding of the world around her. However, the peaceful atmosphere at the lake is gradually disrupted when the fish becomes a tourist attraction. Saintagnan transforms reality into a playground of fantasy and storytelling, where temporalities and narratives both personal and collective intertwine. With tenderness, quirky humour and a penchant for the absurd, CAMPING DU LAC enjoys the magic of things while taking a concerned look at capitalist greed and our relationship with nature. (Viennale)