Un usage de la mer

What is a journey, but a collection of memories and experiences, that becomes richer at every turn? Half way between the lightness of a journal captured in a sensitive 16-mm film and the rigour of historical recreation, Un usage de la mer adopts very different guises while its director follows the footsteps of corsairs and colonisers in today’s troubled Mediterranean region. Allowing himself to be affected and mixing historical revelation with a personal journey, Fabrizio Polpettini proposes an entertaining and profoundly political voyage through this space of innumerable facets, where Yul Brynner and Muammar Gaddafi coexist naturally, at the same time as providing a joyous essay on the pleasure of narrating. (SdB)

Spanish Premiere