De sas en sas

Like a ritual, Nora is getting prepared with her mother to visit her brother, who is detained at the Fleury Mérogis prison. They are accustomed to this, and their habit is disrupted only by the kind of anxiety and restlessness that can never disappear. Once on site, like in a continuously straying choreography, they run into other women with whom they share increasingly intense moments, while the heat rises in the site’s never-ending succession of airlocks. Rachida Brakni makes us travel into a quasi-enclosed world that reveals itself to be cruel, Kafkaesque, and yet completely connected to reality. De Sas en sas is first and foremost a story of bodies, beautifully filmed, that refers to the characters’ intimacy as much as the wounded social body which they incarnate. Suffering Bodies but nonetheless resilient. (Laurence Reymond)