Domaine

Patric Chiha was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1975. At the age of 18 he moved to Paris where he studied fashion design at the ESAA Duperré. He went on to study editing at INSAS in Brussels. After making several short, medium-length and documentary films, including Où se trouve le chef de la prison ? and Les Messieurs, which were selected for several festivals, he made his first feature in 2009, entitled Domaine. "What is interesting about the character of Nadia (Béatrice Dalle) is that first of all she believes in the possibility of a world that can be structured, but at the end of the day she realises that she has been deceived, and that the world is chaos. She is someone who talks a lot, who analyses, but he realises, sadly, that words only get in the way of thoughts and feelings. Nadia is writing a thesis on Gödel: I chose Gödel because he went mad, and because he revolutionised maths by showing that the world of mathematics was by essence incomplete. This is Nadia's pathway. I chose Béatrice Dalle to play her because I felt, even before I met her, that her gentleness and her violence were similar to Nadia's. I was fascinated by her, just as Pierre is by Nadia in the film. So it's a real love story. The film is also a story of cruelty: Pierre is cruel insofar as he chooses himself over her. Nadia is cruel because she gives a young man a mission that he is not capable of completing: the mission of saving her".