Achille Trocellier

French filmmaker Eugène Green offers a playful but insightful variation on the mythos of a fairy tale in this comedy drama, in which a tale of brave knights and evil ogres is played in modern dress, with the actors speaking in contemporary slang. (movies.msn.com)

Les Signs catches the movement towards of a small family whose fisherman paterfamilias disappeared at sea ten years ago. The mother lights a lantern in the window facing the harbor each night, and when her older, teenage son chastises her for giving up the search for his father she replies that she hopes, and her internalization is clearly her way of searching.