Partage des larmes
Anna-Célia Kendall-Yatzkan
2002 - 32 min - Digital vidéo - Couleur - France

I am a weeper. I’ve never been able to liquidate my tears, so I’ve decided to make something out of them : a film. And I started investigating. My neighbour of the 6th floor would weep first thing in the morning. She lost her alter ego when she was just born
Elisabeth de Fontenay, who is a philosopher, thinks tears of grieving people are fecund. My cousin Anna has not shed a single tear for the past 20 years. My neighbour of the 1st floor cries over her beloved grandfather. But why does my friend Colette, a filmmaker like me, cry in churches ? Perhaps because she has lost faith. As for her mother, Rachel, she has lost her roots. My lifelong friend Marie-Christine, weeps over harmony somehow gone. Bruno Putzulu, who is an actor, is still haunted by a separation he experienced as a child...
Hélène Monsacré, a hellenist, sympathises with a crying Achilles and Michèle Coquet, an anthropologist, looks into African scarified tears ; a far away time and a far away place... drawn nearer to us by tears. I do share emotions with them all. I do have tears to share...