Venice Film Festival: The Souffleur
Starring Willem Dafoe
The Souffleur, fragments and memories
When an Argentine entrepreneur purchases a historic hotel to demolish and rebuild it, the Intercontinental's director will begin his small battle to stop time.
The Souffleur is a film that intrigues with its originality, raising a debated theme such as the historical and structural memory of places. The narrative is based on the preservation of a building that simultaneously becomes a battle for the preservation of lived moments, memories of people who inhabited it, those who built it, and the waiters who served there. Preservation and belonging appear to be the elements that form the narrative of The Souffleur.
The direction develops a deliberately fragmented dynamic, which might make the narrative seem disorganized to the viewer, yet it conceptually renders the meaning of the plot. It focuses on instants, almost creating those fragments of time that determine memories. It seems to establish a connection between disjointed narration and the creation of memories experienced in the hotel. A technique that conveys the sense of memory—moments that will be lost with the destruction of the structure.
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