Dir.: José Luis Guerin; Script: José Luis Guerin; Phot.: Tomás Pladevall; Ed.: José Luis Guerin, Manel Almiñana; Mus.: Juliette Gaultier, Ivon Orvain, Anne Céline Auche, Céline Laurent, Simone Mercier, Carlos Romagosa; Cast: Héctor Faver, Grup Cinema-Art, Casp 33, pral., 08010 Barcelone (Espagne), tél.: 34 3 412 0484, fax: 34 3 318 8866 / Pere Portabella, Films 59, Mallorca 336, 1 1a, 08037 Barcelone (Espagne), tél.: 34 3 207 2766, fax: 34 3 459 0668; Prod. & Sales: I.C.C., Mallorca 336, 1 1a, 08037 Barcelone (Espagne), tél.: 34 3 207 2766, fax: 34 3 459 0668.

On November 8, 1930, a Paris lawyer, Gérard Fleury, left his house at dawn in search of the right light in which to complete a landscape film around Lake Thuit. That day. he died under circumstances that have never been fully explained. Three months earlier, he had made one of his modest home movies: a playful, summery film shot in the sun-drenched gardens of the Chateau du Thuit, a kind of earthly paradise with no historical context other than that of a nostalgia for those artificial paradises created by time. "You first dream of films and then a few of them -- very few -- become reality... those films that you can realize in your mind, without necessarily being a director... I tried to rediscover some of these basic impressions. To do so I rejected most of the ingredients that normally go into a film, because they would have distorted my purpose. As a starting point I used old images of movies we all know. Through them there appears, more clearly and spontaneously, an occult illusion, almost secret yet latent: the rehabilitation of the dead, a subject that has inspired many a legendary film (Dreyer's ORDET, Hitchcock's VERTIGO, Dieterle's PORTRAIT OF JENNIE, Mankiewicz's THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR), but it is also an inherent function of the film image as an 'embalmer of time', as André Bazin's put it so well." -- José Luis Guerin