La baguette

La Baguette is, just like The New Life, at first sight an apparently clumsy wrestling match between two men in a closed space. They attack each other but their duel is obviously staged and, thanks to the friendly looking slow motion movements of the characters, it hardly looks aggressive. The alienation this evokes is not by chance. Cameron Jamie himself grew up in an American suburb dominated by mainstream culture and with both films he looks at the manipulated 'ideal' personifications of the American way and the apparently benign visual language. In La Baguette, the director in disguise attacks a later compatriot in an anonymous bar in Bordeaux. Jamie has been living in France since 2000.