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Rather than a full-length portrait of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, philosopher and writer, Christine Baudillon and François Lagarde have chosen to take us on a journey in his company. This could make one believe in a pilgrimage, since “stations” are made there in the high places of the history of European thought: Sils-Maria, Tübingen, Jena, Saint-Pierre Island. It is to Nietzsche, Rousseau, Hölderlin, Hegel and others that we visit, in their decor, bedroom, mountain, river. Adding to saying seeing, such was the project of these images shot in 2001, to which Lacoue-Labarthe had thought in advance of adding photographs, music and other texts than those he reads himself at the screen. But nothing pious here, on the contrary. If there is a certain contemplation, this never excludes humor, and it is of Moullet that one thinks, for example, in front of the burlesque jokes of the thinker at the foot of the rock where Nietzsche was struck of the thought of the eternal return. No pontificating overhang here, neither on the works, nor on their geography, no edifying hum, quite the contrary: the brutal and simple experience of the texts, the songs and the landscapes which saw them born. (Jean-Pierre Rehm, FIDMarseille 2013)
