Souvenir, souvenir

The basic virtue of this short animation remains the universal message ( and echo ) of story. A young man hopes to have the confessions of his grandfather about Algerian war. The venerable man reduces his stories to his mates and a gazelle. Nothing more. The stor told in a time of family dinner , about dark side of experiences is minimalized after.

And this is the best part. Because the silence of old man is the silence of people crossing a traumatic experience, as butcher or as victim, from the Shoah and the Goulag and the Pitesti experiment to wars .

Second, this silence, a sort of exorcism against terrible experiences , is first used in the relation with family.

Not the last, after so many books, artistic films, documentaries, edited documents , why the young director has need of the words of his grandfather ? The ansewer seems simple but it sounds not so easy.

In short, a special film, useful in profound sense.