Cornelius, the Howling Miller

When the miller Cornelius decides to build his windmill on top of the mountain, above a little village, he is far from thinking how his presence, so sincere and rough, is going to upset the natural order of the village. Cornelius displays such telluric energy that he soon becomes a subject of concern for the villagers. Only the beautiful Carmen seems capable of accepting him for who he is … even when he howls at nightfall, possessed by a force that he cannot control. With this burlesque and tragic tale, in which bodies and settings speak volumes, Yann Le Quellec continues to explore an ultra-physical and choreographic universe that owes as much to the art of film as it does to that of graphic novels. He gracefully captures a deeply ambivalent natural world, full of suffering and immense beauty.(Laurence Reymond)