Dominique Courait

"Royan la Rage" is the crossed portrait of a family facing his visceral need to desire. André, the father, has no more wishes. To feel free to be and to desire, he has to get rid of his money. Miss Canine, a financial domineering, snatched him from his daily hypocrisy. Doubts about his double life gradually contaminate his wife and his daughter. The newfound lucidity at a price. Behind the utopian world of the seaside resorts, it spreads like a virus and makes appearances disappear.

On 29 July 1890 Vincent Van Gogh took his last breath. Despite the painter's silence about the circumstances, his death was put down to suicide throughout the 20th century. In 2011 following their investigation into Van Gogh's last hours American researchers Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh delivered a new version of the facts.

An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat of desire, a passion that can never be revealed… His first love’s name was Thomas. They were 17.