Alexandre and Caroline met through an advert in the launderette. They met in a café. Caroline needs money. Alexandre offers her a very special job.
Following in the footsteps of Krzysztof KieÅ›lowski’s Three Colours: White and Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry, Rassurer les inquiets questions our relationship with suicide and the ethical issues it raises.
Catholic theology lists 15 works of mercy to be performed out of love for one’s neighbor and to make amends for one’s own faults. All are structured around a verb and an object: Feed the hungry, Welcome strangers, Clothe the naked, etc. Comforting the anxious is a fictional work of mercy. In the context of the play The response of Men, it extends Tiphaine Raffier’s reflection on the paradoxes and moral disorientation that arise—when taken literally—from these sometimes unsettling injunctions to do good.
Written and directed by Lucas Samain
With Alexandre Lecroc and Caroline Mounier
Exterior view by Tiphaine Raffier
