Icare

Magritte 2019 Best Fictional Short Film Award... On a small island crowned with steep cliffs, stands a single house overlooking the sea. An inventor, obsessed with the dream that man will one day fly like birds, conducts experiments with his machines on this abandoned piece of land. According to this man, only a pure, light, and naive soul can achieve such a feat. Eleven-year-old Joseph, recruited from the mainland, seems like the perfect candidate...

The director, Nicolas Boucart, who himself worked in the camera department, is also the screenwriter of the film. In this short film, it is evident from the very first second that Nicolas Boucart has a background in camera work, because each frame is like a Renaissance painting, a film completed at 24 frames per second. Although such good visuals dominate and overshadow the film's script, a very good child actor, Albert Chassagne-Baradat, comes into play here.

"Icare" is one of the finest examples of how intense the narrative power of a short film can be.

Very strong and powerful movie , well constructed . A documentary that should be shown at the millenium festival as the message is strong

For me, a short film for who I am profound greatful. For its beauty, cold- salted poetry, for performances and images, for a story not new but admirable retold, for performances, music.

And for references - from leonardo da Vinci ( Salai, indeed , but the obsession of fly in same measure ) to Joseph and his new life, the friendship with Salai - the old comradery and the air of books for young readers from last part of XIX century.

And, sure, the island , isolated, location of one house and an obsessive dream.

Easy to define it as beautiful, touching, impressive but , like each experience, it represents than the skin of words can keep.

Exceptional. Short but well constructed movie. The score sas simply outstanding. Must see!