A wealthy Japanese patron, enamored with Rousseau, offers an atypical and versatile filmmaker the opportunity to freely adapt Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s epistolary novel into a film. The filmmaker brings together three young actors in a deserted palace above Clarens and begins shooting. Rousseau’s tragedy then reverberates through the contemporary characters.
Alexandra Camposampiero | Simon Guélat | Lucia Placidi | Mali Van Valenberg | Edmond Vullioud | Rinaldo Marasco | Eiji Mihara