You and the Night

Footballer Eric Cantona's 'forgotten' film

A famous footballer cast in a French experiment. A party of sorts with a tension that is deliberately burdened by constructed pretense to tease the viewer into the figure of the voyeur, which is the only figure not figured in the cast of party invitees. Those include Cantona as 'the stallion' for example, invited to the party on strength of the stallion's famed endowment. Alongside others like 'the star', the teen', all called to the event for their various fantasies about relationship and sex to mix and play out, to mutual disillusionment and perhaps, fulfillment. In the end, none of it quite comes together, but perhaps that was director Yann Gonzalez's intention all along. One is, nevertheless, left haunted by the lighting, the interplay of black and white, of shadows, of movement and voice. A set piece, almost entirely cast on what feels like a stage, a self-help group Characters Anonymous.