Petit-fil(s) | The Funambulist
Romuald Beugnon | Fiction | 22'31'' | 2015
(Fr) Angelo, vingt ans, est funambule. Tous les soirs, il exécute un numéro spectaculaire dans la pure tradition circassienne. Tous les soirs, son grand-père, Maurice, le rejoint sur le fil et lui vole la vedette. Angelo ne se l'avoue pas encore, mais répéter inlassablement un vieux numéro de cirque et le cabotinage de Maurice lui pèsent de plus en plus.
(En) Twenty-year-old Angelo is a funambulist. Every evening, he carries out a spectacular number in the pure circus tradition. Every evening his grandfather Maurice joins him on the hire wire and steals the show. Angelo can't yet admit it to himself, but endlessly repeating the same old circus number and Maurice's hamming are beginning to wear him down.