La chaussée des géants

François Gérard’s life is defined by a ghost. As a young boy in Paris, he shared a brief, formative connection with a foreign girl named Antiope. Decades later, driven by a lingering obsession, he tracks her to her homeland of Mingrelia—a fictionalized territory on the precipice of a violent revolution. François arrives as a guest of the Count of Antrim, Antiope’s father, fully expecting a grand emotional reunion. Instead, he is met with a chilling wall of indifference. Antiope appears to have no memory of their shared childhood, or perhaps she simply has no room for it amidst the political fires consuming her country. The film follows François as he navigates a landscape where personal nostalgia is crushed by the weight of historical upheaval and a woman who refuses to play the role of the romantic prize.