Emmanuelle Antille

By The River, the first of the film’s four episodes, takes place in autumn in a house surrounded by corn fields. This episod paints the portrait of a woman of about fifty, who lives with her mother in the old family home. Having refused to grow up, this woman lives in a fantasy world, taking refuge in the things of childhood. She has invented a sister for herself, a double, with whom she communicates and who accompanies her in her imaginary escapades. When evening comes, this woman dreams of a girl by a river, an angel figure strangely similar to the one in the picture in her bedroom. Every night, she gets up as if sleep-walking, goes to her window with a torch and signals to a man who – she believes – is waiting outside in his car to take her away.