Itinéraire de Jean Bricard

The final Straub-Huillet film, L'Itinéraire de Jean Bricard is a stunning adaptation of Jean-Yves Petiteau's book about a French resistance fighter. The film begins with a long take of an island in La Loire, where Bricard lived during the Occupation. Sudden intrusions of Bricard's narration break through the natural surface, taking us through the region's fishing and agricultural past in the 1930s, through the heinous trespasses of the Occupation and the brave, covert actions of the Resistance.