Vacation

“In the beginning, genre cinema didn’t much interest me; I started out more from my own memories. When I was a child in our country house in Normandy, I would encounter characters that fascinated me – the crazy woman from the village, the good-looking homeless boy who hung around…”

I was probably a troubled little girl, projecting my somewhat dark thoughts onto my surroundings. And then I mixed what I had experienced with my fantasies. Movies don’t interest me if there’s no tension, and so I couldn’t write a purely psychological story, but yes, basically it’s about being a mother...

As for the mixing of genres, I think we also strove for a more visual approach in the revision. The story hasn’t changed, but we’ve given more importance to the fantastic aspect, the ominous nights and the lights of childhood."

Béatrice Sebbah De Staël & Léo Wolfenstein