L’enclos du temps

You can’t build castles on chance, they say in France, but Jean-Charles Fitoussi contradicts that. Under the name ‘The Castle of Chance’, he has been making films ever since 2002 in which chance is allowed to play a leading role, both in the stories and during the making. The Enclosure of Time is the eighth part in the series, which revolves around the key character, Saturn, and in which the tragicomic insecurity of life repeatedly predominates.
This theme may sound ponderous, but Fitoussi – who has a background in philosophy and architecture and learnt filmmaking under Straub and Huillet – manages to keep his films lightfooted, filled with humorous references to the classics. In this way, the old Dr William Stein, who brings the dead back to life, is a great-grandson of Dr Frankenstein. But the nurse he sends when Théophile’s grandpa gets ill is something very different.

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