Synopsis
Two cars roll along a winding mountain road. Gaspard drives the first car and is followed by Alice. She has been employed by Gaspard to replace Peter Holm, a renowned English photographer who mysteriously disappeared a few weeks earlier.
Gaspard leaves Alice at the Hotel des Cimes. She leaves from there each morning to continue the work undertaken by Holm for the Photographic Mission to Observe Landscape. She must reproduce exactly – if possible to the same day and time – the landscape photos taken over and over again by Holm each year for the last seven years. Although this solitary work suits Alice, it’s not always easy to stay on the sidelines when the hotel’s restaurant is invaded each night by a merry gang of people unwillingly to let a woman eat dinner alone.
Alice mechanically sets about her work. Her curiosity is aroused as she begins to question Holm’s choices – why did he climb all the way to this lookout point with its view across the valley if he only wanted to photograph a...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Pierre Grise Productions
- Co-production : Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
- French distribution : Pierre Grise Distribution
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Martine Marignac, Maurice Tinchant
- Screenwriters : John Lvoff, Camille Fontaine
- Director of photography : Sabine Lancelin
- Music Composer : Sarah Murcia
- Assistant director : Catherine Charlot
- Editor : Valérie Condroyer
- Sound Recordist : Jérôme Thiault
- Costume designer : Nathalie Raoul
- Production Manager : Christian Lambert
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Chabot
- Sound Editor : Hervé Guyader
- Continuity supervisor : Lydia Bigard
- Production Designer : Manu De Chauvigny
- Sound Mixer : Emmanuel Croset
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified