38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Bain de jouvence

Sébastien Jousse

Image Bain de jouvence
France
1991 Fiction 16 min
A man chained to a block of concrete at the edge of a swimming pool - suicide by drowning.He jumps into the water, his life floats up to the surface : pangs and hardships of destiny are the fleeting images before certain death.
With : Thierry Ragueneau, Benjamin Roche, Stéphane David.
Screenplay : Sébastien Jousse
Image : Sophie Maintigneux
Sound : Fanny Menin
Music : Stéphane Jourdain
Editing : Isabelle Patissou-Maintigneux
Production : Archibald Films, 9, rue Treilhard, 75008 Paris
Tél : 45 63 97 32
Sébastien Jousse was born in 1966. After studying cinema at the University of Paris VIII and devoting his master's thesis to Jacques Tati, he starts directing with "Bain de jouvence"