Les variations de l’arrière- pays chez Téchiné L’accent réaliste d’une adaptation de Nolot

Inspired by a text written in 1981 by Jacques Nolot for the café-theatre, André Téchiné composed a medium-length intimiste film in 1983 entitled La Matiouette ou l’arrière-pays. With the diatopic variations of the South-West and diastratic differences between the country man and the Parisian, Téchiné represented a conflict between the two brothers, somewhere between myth and realism. He experimented on screen with “sibling variation”, and created a dialogue falling on deaf ears, full of incomprehension, resentment, and incommunicability.