One, Two, Three

A journalist takes on a double professional mission: a paper on the closing of a marble factory of funeral monuments in Saint-Maurice-des-Carrières, his native village, and an article on a circus camped out in Brémondville. These reports are gradually invaded by fiction, by the illusions of childhood, dreams, entertainment, drugs, and death.

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« A muffled siren, followed by a flash: Guy used his electronic flash to photograph Antoine standing on a chair, hand in his shirt, like Napoleon...