“I know what she meant to me. I know nothing else about her.”
Georgette watches over the rituals that punctuate the lives of the narrator and her brother: bath time, meals, waking up and going to bed, celebrations, and travels. She is also the only one who knows how to get rid of snakes and scorpions. Georgette is a second mother. She is indispensable. But socially, she remains a girl, that is to say, a maid. Such is the contradiction at the heart of this subtle and heart-wrenching narrative.
In 26 sequences, Dea Liane describes the daily life of a family, following the model of amateur films that still existed in the 1990s. By substituting words for images, she offers a new way of storytellingsensitive and precise. Without forgetting the influence of her other mother tongue: Arabic.
