Laffaire Valérie

A filmmaker travels through mountain villages and along the shores of Alpine lakes to investigate the disappearance of Valérie 20 years earlier She allegedly murdered a Canadian tourist before disappearing without a trace At least that is how the narrator who was passing through the region at the time remembers the story Over the course of the interviews the elusive Valérie seems to disappear a second time literally engulfed by the Alpine landscape magnificently captured on film by François Caillat A haunting imposing landscape where chasms and precipices become metaphors characters in a work of fiction that the camera turns into a documentary A film in the form of an essay in which the director takes his work on memory to its highest degree of abstraction