Élina Labourdette

A poor -- but talented -- pianist is made to play the fool at his wife's boorish, rich relatives' society party.

Roland, a bored young man, meets Lola, a woman he was in love with during his teens. Now a cabaret dancer and a devoted single mother, Lola hopes the father of her child, who deserted during her pregnancy, will return. Roland finds himself falling back in love with her.

An achingly romantic vision of wanderlust and unsettled ennui, Earth Light is the most optimistic of Guy Gilles’s features. Like his earlier films, it’s a rhythmic, fragmented study in memory, and how the pleasures of the present moment can stave off the emotional dead-ends of a regretful past.

A piercing portrait of doomed romance that trembles with intensity of feeling, Wall Engravings dances between the sensuality of the moment and the haunted halls of memory. A tale of passion and its melancholy ruins, every one of its 68 minutes feels fit to burst with Guy Gilles’ emotional abundance.