A Letter to Father
by Morgan Richard
France
Director: Morgan Richard
Cinematographer: Diane Richard
Editing: Lionel Ledu
Sound: Lionel Ledu
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Mail: [email protected]
Year: 2007
HDV CAM, Colour, 36 min, French Version
Unrelased
World Premiere
A Letter to Father is an intimist film shot in south Asia, in Benares, Peshawar and Kabul the year when Morgan Richard turned sixteen. It deals with his relationship with his Pakistani father almost unknown to him. It is the travel journal of an initiatory journey in search of the key to issues such as absence, filiation, love, death and religion. Spirituality is omnipresent. It holds a fascination for him at every sequence, as a too heavy heritage to assimilate. It is a questioning of a mixed-race adolescent who has fantasised a lot about the areas of his hidden story and now confronts the truth.
The partly epistolary narration echoes with a letter written by his father before his birth explaining the reasons why he would never take care of him.