DAYDREAMS
L'Indomptée
Synopsis
Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have not met before, but will do so as recipients of a year-long residency at the Villa Medici in Rome. Nobody will emerge unscathed by this year spent at the Villa Medici, where both body and soul find liberation.
Synopsis
Axèle is a photographer, Camille is a writer. They have not met before, but will do so as recipients of a year-long residency at the Villa Medici in Rome. Nobody will emerge unscathed by this year spent at the Villa Medici, where both body and soul find liberation.
Our take
Rome’s fabled Villa Medici emerges in Caroline Deruas’ film as both a palace of ghosts and a shelter for the imagination. A French artist’s residency turns into a complex, psychodramatic web of fantasy, power struggles, and bohemian self-expression. Mysterious abound, and all is not as it seems.