Jours de France

Pierre (played by Pascal Cervo, the fragile hero of a ‘cinema family’ which includes Laurent Achard, Pierre Léon, and Paul Vecchiali) embarks on a road movie through the heartland of France. As he tries to escape from his lover—or from himself—he roams the country’s highway rest areas, its gas stations, its secret cafés. He covers all of France’s provinces. To disappear. To escape. To sink into the depths of a country in order to erase the traces of a life. Of a love. Following Pierre’s escape, Paul (the marvellous Arthur Igual) loses himself in turn in the desperate quest for his partner. He follows his virtual traces left on social networks like Grindr. Jérôme Reybaud’s debut film is a work that develops a couple’s comic portrait of sorts, a work that addresses passionate love as much as it tackles the solitude which the latter provokes. (Elena Lopez Riera)