L'HISTOIRE DE RICHARD O. / LE RESTE DU MONDE — Damien Odoul

DVD-Book

14 x 19 cm / 96 pages + 2 DVD / October 2024

isbn : 978-2-35137-372-9

English subtitles / Bilingual (French + English) texts

• DVD 1: L'Histoire de Richard O. [2006, 75 min.]

In the grip of his fascination for women, Richard O. explores the sinuous arcanes of desire, through Paris in August and its summer inhabitants.

‘In Odoul's cinema, we have room to suppose - that must be his wolfish richness - that in his years of solitude, all over the world, the camera, without him even thinking about it, may have saved him. And that's what Odoul, the elfin wrestler, does: he designs a device of extreme refinement to make art... raw... vibrate.’ Mathieu Amalric

• BONUS

- Magik, DIPTYQUE, 2000, 4 min.

- Sans monde, DIPTYQUE, 2000, 3 min.

• DVD 2: The Rest of the World [2011, 85 min.]

Eve lives in the South. One night, the man she loves commits suicide. Shortly afterwards, she realises that she is pregnant with his child. She and her sisters meet up at their father's house for dinner, where a buried family secret resurfaces. The eldest is convinced that her father is not her real father. She decides to find her father, while Eve wonders whether or not she should keep the child.

• BONUS

- Anima, experimental , 2006, 2 min.

• BOOK

Bilingual texts French + English

- "Si vous voyez ce que je veux dire", text by Jacques Cheneau

- "Histoire d'un secret", text by Aurore Renaut

- Filmography of Damien Odoul

- Photographs by Damien Odoul