Official Competition 2019

Je peux changer mais pas au 100%

Amie-Sarah Barouh I 2019 I 40'

SYNOPSIS

The film begins with an amorous promise: I can change. A promise heard too often, a promise we know to be false in advance. It tells the story of the relationship between Boby, a 24-year-old Romanian Roma who grew up in Marseille, living off illegal activities and Amie, a 24-year-old foolhardy girl who grew up in Tokyo.

BIOGRAPHY

Amie-Sarah Barouh

AMIE-SARAH BAROUH (Tokyo, 1993). In 2010 she moved to Paris, where she studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. It was also in the French capital that she met a Roma for the first time and quickly began to learn to speak Romanian. One day, a friend gave her a camera and asked her to film a wedding, and she has held on to it ever since.

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Critical text

The title sentence of this film is both a statement by its protagonist, Boby, and a confirmation of the impasse he and director Amie-Sarah Barouh have reached. The sentimental relationship established between this director and the young Romanian who lives on the street, leads them and whoever approaches this film, to the abysses of the most lacerating love and to the underworld of a city, Paris, where inequality and hopelessness prevail. The portrait of a free but irresponsible man like Boby, a petty criminal and a non-idealized lover, serves Barouh not only to perform a shock therapy around the romance she had with him, but also as a key to penetrate the underworlds of poverty and exclusion that inhabit the heart of a society that prides itself on being the bastion of integration and equality. Few recent titles have so directly and unsympathetically combined sentimental inclemency with economic inclemency. GABRIEL DOMÉNECH

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