Tambylles

Hoguenauer’s ambitious and long short attempts to build tension by playing with two different narrative forms: documentary and fiction. The first 17 minutes of the short are in fact part of a fictional documentary shot within a film about the main character, an eighteen-years-old delinquent recently released from a juvenile detention center, returning to his hometown. The filmmaker films the youngster at home with his parents and then interview people living in town, who have not forgotten what the boy has done. After the documentary has the delinquent confronting the mother of his victim, we move from the fictional filmmaker’s point of view, and the cinema verité style of editing, to a more traditional feature. We follow the unnamed youngster trying to start a new life, getting a new job and getting together with a new girl. The only question left being: has he really changed?