Society & Economy

Sylvie

Sylvie is thirty, and lives in Cambrai, northern France. Her outlook on the world is completely different from ours. Sylvie is mentally handicapped. And she is my sister.
I see her before I see her handicap. That is the viewpoint of the film, which gives free rein to Sylvie´s personality & and not to her limits: her thoughts, her fears, her passions, her everyday life. It´s a labor of love, which was only made because Sylvie is my sister and I am a film-maker. This film is therefore a story with two voices: it is the relationship and contradictory emotions passing between two sisters, revealing Sophie´s world lovingly and poetically, and how this world influences my perception of life´