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For the past few years, an ethnologist has been returning regularly to a village in New Guinea. He speaks the language of these people who go about naked carrying their bows, who live by hewing out gardens from the forest, and fly off the handle so easily like our own peasants. He knows them well but his relationship with them remains uneasy. They only seem interested in his toothbrush, too often they take him for a cash box. As he films his financial dealings with them, he comes to realize that all this——which he didn’t want to acknowledge and which fills him with shame——is in fact what binds him to them. It will require a roundabout approach through impurity and self-interest to come to an understanding with them. We discover people who are no less civilized than our own next-door neighbor. We come to forget that they live so far from us. With a half smile, we watch the ethnologist and these people who don’t blame him for trying so hard to build a friendship with them.

France - 2001 - 1 h 03 mn - DV - Colour

Réalisation Stéphane Breton Scénario Stéphane Breton Image Stéphane Breton Son Stéphane Breton Montage Catherine Rascon

Production Les Films d'Ici, 62 bd Davout, 75020 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4452 2323 Fax : +33 (0)1 4452 2324 E-mail : courrier@lesfilmsdici.fr Co-Production ARTE France

Ventes Les Films d'Ici, 62 bd Davout, 75020 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4452 2323 Fax : +33 (0)1 4452 2324 E-mail : courrier@lesfilmsdici.fr