Excess Will Save Us
Keywords
- film about film
- media
- psychology
- small town
Actors
- Morgane Dziurla-Petit
- Bernard Petit
- Jean-Benoît Ugeux
- Kim Truong
- Roger Petit
Director
- Morgane Dziurla-Petit
Drama, Comedy
1h 40min
16+
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A filmmaker returns to the village where she was born – a hamlet in the north of France – to investigate a strange story about a terrorist threat.
A filmmaker returns to the village where she was born – a hamlet in the north of France – to investigate a strange story about a terrorist threat.
A young film director returns to her family village after a terrorist alert was triggered. As she films her family members in their power dynamics, she comes to understand that they are more connected to this event than she originally thought. Through the making of a short documentary, she becomes closer to her dad Patrick, 62, and her cousin Faustine, 17, who share the same dream: leaving the village.
EXCESS WILL SAVE US was a short film, before director Morgane Dziurla-Petit decided to expand on the idea. Her 2019 short, almost unchanged, makes up the first fifteen minutes of this new film, in which she then investigates what happens to these people afterwards – including being confronted by themselves upon seeing the short, and the premiere of that film at a major festival.