Filmo Press Contact Links novel diverse Texts short film feature film Films Home LETTRES KAZAKHES / Kazakh letters an epistolary novel illustrated by Guillaume Reynard Written by women, all those letters are addressed to Guillaume, a French man back in france after a long stay in Kazakhstan. Through their hopes, feelings, and humor which resonate throughout the illustrations and the letters by Olga, Ania, Katia..., a rich and subtle portrait of their recipient and of an unknown country is revealed. Editions Intervalles 96 illustrated pages - 16 cm x 19 cm In bookshops since November 2007
LETTRES KAZAKHES / KAZAKH LETTERS Jean-Claude Taki The trips we have made, Guillaume Reynard and myself, to Russia or to the former republics of the ex-USSR, have been opportunities to meet the forgotten ones of history : Those generations who lived through the Soviet regime that has formed the urban and human landscapes. One day Sacha told us: « I understand that the world has changed, that society has changed, I do understand... but I have lived for 20 years under the Soviet regime, all my childhood, I don't know if I will be able to make the change. » The illustrated epistolary novel “Lettres Kazakhes” recalls those trips and meetings, and it witnesses the dignity of those forgotten ones. Through a love story it seemed important to us to allow a different approach to inverse the points of view and to let women speak, one woman in particular, in order to understand, to see or to feel the contexture of this part of humanity in mutation. Letters that we can read out quietly, in order to keep the memory alive and not to cross out this pure reality forever.