If Faustine’s father appears to be obsessive in his constant filming of his family, what will today’s babies say about their parents in 30 years time? That they were busy documenting the minutiae of their children’s lives, filling the Internet with petabytes of videos, sharing them with mostly random viewers? And letting the very lives to slip by, seen by many but as quickly forgotten.
So Jean-Louis, in his quest to preserve the moments of happiness for posterity, failed — or maybe refused — to see how deeply unhappy Valérie was. Taking a break in her career of a make-up artist (she used to earn more than her cameraman husband) for the sake of kids, being unable to find a full-time job afterwards. Sounds familiar?
In the end, Jean-Louis’s home videos turned out to be useful, albeit not in the fashion he envisioned. Faustine made a film about her mum whose life, despite all, is anything like any other.
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