From New Zealand to Mongolia via Burma, Rosy, autobiographical documentary in theaters on January 5, signed Marine Barnérias, suffering from multiple sclerosis, is an adventure, a reconquest of oneself in the face of the disease.
In 2017, the 27-year-old director, also host on France 3 Bretagne, recounted this personal adventure in resilience in a book, The forbidden journey that gave meaning to my life (Flammarion). Two years earlier, she had learned of her illness, bluntly announced by a doctor following partial loss of vision. Then a student, faced with the urgency of the situation, she decides to take the trip of her dreams “to regain (his) balance that multiple sclerosis is trying to upset”, she confided.
Three countries will be crossed in a few months: “New Zealand to rediscover my body, to feel it better to better defend it. Burma and Mongolia, to shake my mind through meditation, my best weapon against disease …”.
With this moving and hopeful film, punctuated by paradisiacal landscapes and unforgettable encounters, shot entirely on the iPhone and set to music by original compositions by Matthieu Chedid, Marine Barnérias wants “to make others want to fly away, because anything is possible even when things are not going”. “Faced with loopholes such as illness, divorce or quite simply unemployment, we all have a seed to cultivate in order to love ourselves and apprehend what we are afraid to tame. Let us not be afraid of things that are ugly in our lives. lives “, considers the young director.
“When I learned that I was sick, with a body and a mind going into a spin, I felt the urge to be far away, to go and feel all this body which is evaporating “, she adds. Six years after the diagnosis of this multiple sclerosis which she nicknames “Rosy”, Marine Barnérias goes “good for the moment”: “life is made of paradoxes. With Rosy, we live together quite well. I don’t make projections. A healthy person can be hit by a car tomorrow”, she says. “Let’s take whatever we have to take. Life is a gift, no matter what the odds.”
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Gender: Documentary
Director: Marie Barnérias
Duration : 1h26
Country : France
Exit : January 5, 2022
Distributer : Gaumont Distribution
Synopsis: Marine, a 21-year-old student, learns that she has multiple sclerosis, an incurable autoimmune disease. The shock of the announcement, the urgency of the situation and the need to make a decision about the treatment to follow, push her to find a solution within herself … She decides to go on a long initiatory journey in 3 countries: New Zealand to rediscover his body, Burma to soothe his spirit and Mongolia to reconnect with his soul. Through unforgettable experiences, Marine sets out to meet herself and find a new balance with this sclerosis that she nicknames Rosy.