Les Signes / La Sapienza
Event
A woman lives with her two children (one, still a child, the other, a teenager) in a small fishing village in the French Basque Country. Her husband, a fisherman, mysteriously disappeared more than five years ago, but she doesn't settle for it. Like an indefatigable lighthouse keeper, she lights a candle every night that she puts in the window in the hope that she can guide the return of this lost Ulysses home. The eldest son, tired of waiting, decides to look for his absent father, interrogating several of those who worked with him. In the course of this quest, he meets a mysterious man who questions him about his origins. The same man who will still hear the confidences of his mother who asks if, after so long, he would still be able to recognize her missing husband.
Alexandre is a prestigious architect who has just won a major award. At the height of his career, he decides to leave with his wife, Alienor, for Italy where he intends to write a book about Francesco Borromini's life and work. Their relationship has seen better days and Alienor is well aware of this. One day, strolling near the Lake Maggiore, they casually meet Goffredo and Lavinia, two siblings in their late teens. She is ill, he will soon begin his academic training in architecture, and the accidental encounter soon becomes a good excuse for the separation of the couple. Alienor will be in Stresa taking care of Lavinia, Goffredo will depart with Alexander on a tour of the Borromini buildings between Turin and Rome. The work of light in the works of the Baroque architect reveals to Alexander the necessity of rekindle his life and his marriage. And that is why at the end of this trip to Italy, armed with renewed wisdom, the miracle always comes to pass.
Alexandre is a prestigious architect who has just won a major award. At the height of his career, he decides to leave with his wife, Alienor, for Italy where he intends to write a book about Francesco Borromini's life and work. Their relationship has seen better days and Alienor is well aware of this. One day, strolling near the Lake Maggiore, they casually meet Goffredo and Lavinia, two siblings in their late teens. She is ill, he will soon begin his academic training in architecture, and the accidental encounter soon becomes a good excuse for the separation of the couple. Alienor will be in Stresa taking care of Lavinia, Goffredo will depart with Alexander on a tour of the Borromini buildings between Turin and Rome. The work of light in the works of the Baroque architect reveals to Alexander the necessity of rekindle his life and his marriage. And that is why at the end of this trip to Italy, armed with renewed wisdom, the miracle always comes to pass.
