A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreaus third staging of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself From the first reading around the table through the first contact with the performance space rehearsals and lighting to opening night the entire creative process unfurls in front of our eyes The film shows us the evolving and ongoing dialogue between Greggory and Chéreau a dialogue full of crises and magical moments of harmony and insight via which the truth intensity complexity mystery and depth of Koltès text gradually emerge to form an implicit bond between these two men The film also shows Chéreau directing rehearsals for Mozarts Don Giovanni in Salzburg revealing both the unity of and profound differences between his opera and theater work
