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Dernières nouvelles du cosmos | Watch for free on ARTS.FILM

01.05.2025

Dernières nouvelles du cosmos | Watch for free on ARTS.FILM

Image from the film Dernières nouvelles du cosmos by Julie Bertuccelli

Grand Prix, FIFA 2018, Julie Bertuccelli’s film was also nominated for the Césars 2017 as well as the Lumières de la presse étrangère 2017.

At nearly 30, Hélène still looks like a teenager. She is the author of powerful texts with a corrosive sense of humor. She is, as she puts it, part of a poorly calibrated lot, fitting nowhere”. A visionary, her telepathic poetry speaks to us of her world and ours. She accompanies a director who is adapting her work for the stage, and converses with a mathematician. Yet Hélène can’t speak or hold a pen, having never learned to read or write. When she was 20, her mother discovered that she could communicate by arranging laminated letters on a sheet of paper. One of the many mysteries of the woman who calls herself Babouillec…