Official Selection out of Competition | France | French | 82 min
Ulysses, fifty-five years old, is a Contemporary artist. Four years ago, Ulysses ran away from his family and put an end to his career. Nowadays, he lives alone, with his dog Joseph, in an old manor in the middle of the forest. He spends his days playing tennis on his own against a pitching machine or listening to horror movies soundtracks. In short, Ulysse is bored to death, but he is too proud to admit it. Mona is twenty and is an arts student. Her life as an artist couldn't be more uneventful, between still, nude drawing workshops or theory classes, taught by geriatric teachers. Mona decides out of the blue to go and meet Ulysse. After a laborious first attempt and some misfortune, both of them will end up on a journey that will change their lives forever.
Over the last 20 years, director and screenwriter Erik Poppe has established himself as an auteur whose films are not to be missed. After an illustrious career in photography and photo-journalism that earned him the Kodak Award, he transitioned into cinema and studied film in Sweden and Norway. Poppe’s Oslo-based trilogy, consisting of Schpaaa (1998), Hawaii, Oslo (2004) and Troubled Water (2008) was widely celebrated. From exploring global conflict through a photo-journalist’s trauma in A Thousand Times Good Night (2013), to revisiting Norway’s response to the German threat in World War II in The King’s Choice (2016); Poppe portrays human beings who make tough choices under exceptional circumstances.
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