"Les Hommes sans gravité", Eléonore Weber

Within the crumbling walls of a house in ruins, two young men - a lord and a gypsy - discover one another physically and intellectually. Bodies and decors are filmed as echoes of one another, gracefully and languidly, constantly threatening to disappear into a narrative abyss, only to be saved in extremis by a volley of dialogues and exchanges which are themselves nourished by the characters' own faint but sustained curiosity for each other. Through a mise en scène between frailty and persistance, Eléonore Weber's film follows the very movements of desire.

A graduate of political philosophy, Eléonore Weber developed her singular style first in the theatre, then in film. Also a playwright in her own right, Weber directed Je m'appelle Vanessa by Laurent Quinton in 2004. The following year she created Tu supposes un coin d'herbe, later produced at the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris in 2007, then Rendre une vie vivable n'a rien d'une question vaine at the Festival d'Avignon in July 2007. Parallel to this activity, Eléonore Weber directed a documentary, Silence dans le fortin in 2002, then Temps morts in 2005, a fictional short selected for numerous festivals.