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film profile], the second feature film by
Rachel Lang, which was presented in the closing slot of the Directors’ Fortnight, unspooling within the 74th Cannes Film Festival, is a story about war and commitment. It’s a story about love. Or rather, it’s a story about those who go to war and those who keep the love alive. A world where men go to war and women take charge of care. A world of opposition but where, ultimately, frustrations, expectations and vulnerabilities coincide.
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The film opens with bodies: young, for the most part, athletic, almost certainly, dressed in uniform and dancing. We’re in a nightclub, a kind of formal parenthesis which serves as an introduction to a haunting tale echoing the questions which engulf life on a military base like a tidal wave; universal questions where we least expect to find them. Can you love someone when you’re far away from one another, and, if so, how? Is it possible to ha
film profile], which screened in the closing slot of the Directorsâ Fortnight.
Cineuropa: Where did you get the idea for this story and what made you want to tell it?
Rachel Lang: I did my time in the army when I was 19 years old and I found it so intense that it made me wonder how men get back to a normal routine and day-to-day life. How do their wives cope with it? Civil life seemed so flat⦠These men lived together 24-7, holed up in trenches, avoiding grenades. It was later that I began to wonder how these men also managed to live up to their wivesâ expectations. In addition, I wanted to make a film about relationships, and the hardest place to have a relationship is in the Foreign Legion. Wives donât have any status, legionnaires enlist as single men and for 5 years they donât have the right to get married or have children. Some of them enlist despite having a family, but theyâre not lawfully married.