Malika is 47 and looks 10 years younger. Her life has always been one of intensity and chance encounters. Tired of this perpetual instability, she takes shelter for a while at Kamel, her father, in the flat where she grew up, and reconnects with him before he leaves to return to Algeria.
Cyril is in love with Cécile, his best friend’s sister. One afternoon, as they are hanging out by the pool, he takes the plunge.
Jonathan Littell revived Monteverdi’s baroque and decadent opera L’incoronazione di Poppea in a modern and fantastic production. From allusions to the Roman era, to the Renaissance and modern age, Little twists shamelessly Monteverdi’s score to highlight the dialogues and create a background music. The Coronation shatters the film-opera’s cliché only to better put it back together, with patience and clockwork precision.
