Les Vrilles de la vigne

I talked to Françoise Lebrun about the nightingales song at Vincents place in the Loiret She then introduced me to Colettes Les Vrilles de la vigne The Tendrils of the Vine a text that she had read at a friends funeral The idea for this very simple film came to me with Françoises voice As long as the vine grows grows to the song of the nightingales as night was falling at Vincents place We did three takes three readings one after the other so that the last would finish deep in the night I kept an excerpt from the second take and the end of the third in the darkness This film was the trigger for Maniquerville