THE “WORLD” OPINION – A MUST SEE
So is this the hallmark of problematic paternity – if there are others? – that Guillaume Senez, 46 years old and three feature films to his credit, intends to put his mark on his work and strengthen his reputation as an auteur. keep (2016) considered it as the early and spontaneous provocation of an adolescent. Our battles (2018), as an echo of Daniel Balavoine, he confronted her with the mother’s eviction from the story, and Romain Duris was already the one who stuck to her.
A missing part today he redistributes the cards and sits at the foot of two mountains. The parental trauma of the child that the other takes from you and knowingly withdraws from your love: what words, what images, to even approach the register of related emotions? But also the most infamous and violent cultural context of this type of symbolic assassination, as the action takes place in Japan between binational parents.
Jay (Romain Duris) drives a taxi in Tokyo, speaks the national language fluently, fits perfectly into the customs and lives with a monkey. A kind of supreme wisdom, shrouded in the mystery of his presence in this place, emanates from his person. Instead, her sister Jessica (Judith Chemla), separated from a Japanese man and kept at a distance from her daughter Vanessa by a court order, arrives from France with all the trappings of Latinity.
Denial of shared custody
He therefore faces the intangibility of the Japanese principle, the only one in the world that applies it, which consists of favoritism “continuity” in the child’s situation and to entrust exclusive custody to the parent with whom he lives, without allowing the husband to approach him. This denial of shared custody and visitation rights opens the door to all abuses, starting with the preventive abduction of the child, and the attack on the latter’s fundamental right to love and be loved by both parents.
Without Jay, a flexible and wise intercessor, Jessica would end up in prison, due to the loss of quality. The Vanessa chapter, which the story will somewhat brutally overshadow, is nevertheless only the ironic exordium of a story that is primarily about Jay’s character. For it soon appears that the Japanese model is not so much a model of wisdom as a man resigned to his fate.
Like his sister, in fact, Jay married a Japanese woman, like her, he broke up with his daughter nine years ago, and as she still doesn’t know, it may be that the other parent, supported by his family, the system judicial. , in short the entire society, intentionally disappears without a trace, the husband being forbidden to seek to find his child under penalty of imprisonment.
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