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“En plein feu” is coming out this week on screens, with André Dussollier and Alex Lutz. It tells the story of a father and his son, prisoners of a fire in the Landes. The film was shot before the gigantic forest fires of the summer of 2022.
A car drives through the Landes forest, against the direction of the firefighters. André Dussollier and Alex Lutz embody in “En plein feu” a father-son duo stuck in the traffic jam of those who evacuate. “I’m afraid of the natural elements, (…) in front of which we are very small and helpless”says André Dussollier.
Reality has caught up with fiction
A year after filming, reality catches up with fiction and the Landes find themselves in the grip of terrible fires. The area of forest that served as the setting for the film burns. A premonitory film? For the director, it is rather a type of disaster that is becoming commonplace. “It’s almost our reality now, so you have to fight it, but also you have to live with it. And that’s what interested me too, in putting these characters in the middle of this situation, which is going to be brought to reproduce”comments Quentin Reynaud.
Alex Lutz plays Simon, a man bereaved by the death of one of his children. Wandering in the brazier, he seeks a way out of the inferno of flames, as one seeks to escape a devouring pain.
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