‘Seuls: La fugue de Suzanne - Jean-Marie Buchet’

Suzanne has had enough of her boyfriend Albert. The drama unfolds in fifteen tableaux, in which she goes over to Albert’s friend Emile. Still, these romantic worries go hand in hand with insatiable boredom… La fugue de Suzanne is a rare gem in Belgian film history. Self-financed by the director, it creates an absurdistic reality with minimal cinematic gestures. “Jean-Marie Buchet is Bresson or Duras as seen by Henri Rousseau. He is our very own Eustache, stripped from his Parisianism.” (Boris Lehman).

Jean-Marie Buchet was born in Jemappes in 1938. After studying film at La Cambre, he directed several short films before finishing his first feature-length film in 1974, La fugue de Suzanne. He regularly collaborated with filmmakers such as Patrick Van Antwerpen, Boris Lehman and Roland Lethem, and he participated in films by Jan Decorte as an actor, editor and sound engineer. Between 1996 and 2009 he contributed to the film magazine Grand Angle. Buchet also worked at the Royal Belgian Film Archive and taught at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

In the context of "Seuls. Singular Moments in Belgian Film History".