The Mechanics of Things
Synopsis
My cat fell from the 8th floor and was left paralyzed in the hind legs. In search of a solution, I met a French association of paralyzed people who had been working for a long time on spinal cord regeneration. This took me and my cat to China for a clinical trial. When the spinal cord is injured, it produces necrosis around the wound. A kind of dam, a scar. Once this necrosis has formed,nothing can circulate through it. The metaphor takes me back to childhood, to a man who voluntarily cut himself off from life. My father, who suffers from profound melancholia, has always tried to reconnect his defective synapses to existence. So the magic potion patented by the Association, this “activated fat”, capable of regenerating connections, becomes much more than a scientific discovery for me. If I can “fix” my cat, maybe I can “fix” my dad too. With this unlikely premise, I’m off to China to film the impossible.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Films de Force Majeure
- Foreign production company : Dirk Manthey Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Lightdox
- French distribution : Tangente Distribution
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Jean-Laurent Csinidis
- Director of Photography : François Chambe
- Editor : Nicolas Milteau
- Sound recordist : Marilou Cuffini-Fabre
- Foreign Producer : Dirk Manthey
- Production Manager : Jérôme Nunes
- Assistant Editor : Léonard Ledoux
- Post-production supervisor : Nora Bertone
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Documentary
- Themes : Handicap, Dreams, Death
- Production language : English, French, Italian, Chinese
- Coproducer countries : France (74.27%), Germany (25.73%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Germany)
- Production year : 2021
- French release : 06/12/2023
- Runtime : 1 h 41 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 154.839
- Visa issue date : 16/11/2023
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
