For the viewer, who cares it is still difficult to decipher. At least initially. With the exception of the two introductory and concluding parts of the story, the central story is that of an unnamed teenager, confined to her room of which we will know nothing, except that she is playing with her Barbie . her friends to talk about serial killers … and she closely follows an influencer named Patricia Coma, whose YouTube channel aims to ” to learn to live better ».
“61°C in Nice”
Mysterious? to say the least. But during the show, Coma gradually lifts the veil on his obsessions. The most important of these refers to the specific anxieties of contemporary youth. Thus this weather sequence in which Patricia Coma announces with a smile that temperatures vary between ” 46°C in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and 61°C in Nice “, reminding the viewer that” none of this changes much, since you can’t leave the house “. Or this dream scene in which “the teenager” confides that he has no choice but ” live with » the crises that characterize his era, « his » 21st century: « Ecology, terrorism, economy… The future is scary »
Through hybrid forms (excerpts from Deleuze and Clouzot, animation, stop motion and voiceovers by famous actors, including Louis Garrel, Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Lacoste and the late Gaspard Ulliel), Coma above all he undertakes to examine the notion of free will, forcing his characters to confront increasingly ambiguous situations. It starts with sessions Developer », a trivial toy that should teach everyone to memorize color sequences… which one finally wonders if it is not the hypnotist’s responsibility. A few minutes later, the “teenage girl” arrives to put her hands in a kitchen mixer promoted by her favorite youtuber, keeping her gaze towards the camera without making a sound, as if to challenge the viewer and convey her pain. . Will she go through with her gesture? Will she end up leaving her house? Will she definitely pass into the world of limbo? To all these unanswered questions, Bonello prefers the power of suggestion. Okay, why Coma it never stops haunting us.
