As part of the Docville cycle curated by Image de Ville.

I WILL NEVER HEAL
David Yon 
France | 2023 | 66’ | FID 2023, French Competition

In a mineral black and white that breaks with the usual blue sky of Marseilles, Ne me guéris jamais summons three anonymous figures, two men and a woman, whose lives it exposes and intertwines through fragments of existences and stories. The film tells us about the way these three people ward off and overcome an unfavourable fate (blindness, imprisonment), or simply the throes of life (mourning). David Yon sets an egalitarian device in which, from the very first sequences, his questioning and filmmaking meet the protagonists’ practices. Then the film introduces a community of artists and becomes a haven for this community. Turning the creative gesture into a vehicle for resistance and reunion, it brings together their musical, cinematographic, and literary creations, while emphasizing their efforts to express themselves. Their creations are not meant to edify anyone, they are merely formulas, stories, beliefs through which four individuals exist, cope, rejoice and escape. Because idiosyncrasies are singularities that really come to life when captured in a portrait, the mise-en-scène turns trial and error into a method, like the blind man’s attempts at writing, or his hand on his friends’ face as he discovers his features, like a metaphor for the documentary gesture. From this arise three portraits, delicately depicted, that channel a sweet melancholy devoid of pathos, and an optimism without bliss. Then, near at hand or at gaze, what are to be gleaned are words and images that draw a generous poetics of the other.

Claire Lasolle

Screening in the presence of the filmmaker.

Date: 23.05.2025 at 8:30 pm
Place: Le Méliès, Port-de-Bouc
12 Rue Denis Papin, 13110 Port-de-Bouc