The Video Evidence - Sébastien Thiéry
St. Michael-Gymnasium, Monschau, Germany
24.1 €
"Big Brother" in your own home?! What would you do if you discovered that a hidden camera was filming your everyday life at home? Justine and Jean-Marc, married for many years, suddenly receive a mysterious email with a video showing their argument in the kitchen. When they remove the camera, more footage follows - revealing secrets, half-truths, and lies about their married life. Both panic. Of course, Justine and Jean-Marc try to downplay or justify their hidden affairs to each other. But who installed the camera, and since when, and why are they being watched at all? The mirror effect of seeing yourself in action, the confrontation with your own game of hide-and-seek, suddenly puts their marriage to the test and inevitably leads to a kind of self-therapy for the couple.
This comedy explores in a wonderfully absurd way the rapid loss of trust between people in media-driven times. How much transparency and ruthless honesty can a relationship bear, and shouldn't some things remain secret so that trust between each other isn't lost?











