iffr: illumination
"Illumination" is the impressive debut of Pascale Breton, awarded a critic's prize in Rotterdam. Set in the wild and forbidding landscape of Bretagne, it tells the story of Ildut, a young man on the border of psychosis who tries to get 'normal' again for love of Christina, his grandmother's nurse.
Perhaps slightly too long, the film nevertheless remains interesting to the end, carried by the lead actor's great performance, and stays with you long after.