Pathos Mathos
Winter season of LIGHTNING
A film by Manuela Morgaine
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Synopsis
Pathos Mathos strives to analyze melancholy, the final stage of depression, and the ways in which it can be overcome. A psychiatrist personifies Saturn, the god and dark planet. He travels to Africa and Syria to find both his own roots and the source of certain ancestral practices: a ritual performed by women deep in Guinea Bissau, spinning dervishes, and a torpedo fish which, in the ancient city of Aleppo, held the secret to wellness. At the same time, five melancholic patients, seen in slow-motion in the places that represent their existential angst, describe their long and unique journeys back to themselves and the light. Credits
Saturne : William de Carvalho Saturne as a child : Ismaël Baretto de Carvalho Dead and the Maiden : Margot Crespon The Madonna of the Sharks : Laurence Mailler The Insane Man : Kamel Aage The Floating Woman : Nathalie Jailler The Nostalgic man The Great Horned Owl : Brice Thévenot Executive Producer : Mathieu Bompoint Screenwriter : Manuela Morgaine Directors of Photography : Manuela Morgaine, Pauline Lormant Editor : Gordana Othnin-Girard, Pauline Lormant Music Composer : Philippe Langlois Line producer : Edyta Janczak-Hiriart Line producer Syria : Hala Alabdalla Sound mixer : Gilles Benardeau Color grading : Christophe Bousquet |
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