FILM

Based on the eponymous book by Jean-Yves Petiteau, Itinéraire de Jean Bricard is composed of long journeys along the Loire River, shot in silvery black-and-white. This is the place where Bricard grew up during the German occupation. Observations of the land and the water accompany Bricard’s narration, recorded by Petiteau in 1994, about the rich history of the region, from commercial fishing and farming in the 1930s, though the Occupation, the Resistance and its brutal suppression. The  film is dedicated to Peter Nestler.