with his movie The sun too closeBrieuc Carnaille plunges us into everyday life of Basile (Clément Rouxel), recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. For his first feature film, Brieuc Carnaille chose his hometown, Roubaix, to develop this character with a tortuous journey. “The trajectory of Basile is very similar to the trajectory of the city of Roubaix. It’s a dented city like him but which is also imbued with a real poetry“, testifies the young director.
After a stay in a psychiatric hospital, Basile takes refuge with his only family, his sister Sarah, played by actress Marine Vacth. This is where the path to reintegration begins, an ordeal for the main character and his constantly worried loved ones. “When you live with a patient like that, there is a weight of guilt and it’s the wear and tear that makes you crack. The attrition for the character of Sarah, Basil’s sister, is when Basil will encroach on her life“, says Brieuc Carnaille.
The director wishes to break a taboo and enlighten the public on this little or little known disease that is schizophrenia. “Mental illness is easier to talk about today, it’s more accepted. Schizophrenia is not the case at all, it is impossible today to admit that one is schizophrenic”he explains.
“Basile suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, he is coming out of a first hospital stay so the disease is newly declared. And if he takes the medicine correctly, he can live normally.”, says Brieuc Carnaille. For him, this is also one of the unknown aspects of the disease, the fact that a treated patient can behave in a normal way.
“The Sun Too Close”, by Brieuc Carnaille, with Clément Roussier, Marine Vacth, Diane Rouxel, 1h30, released on September 28, 2022.
> Read also our review of the film