Sunshine for the Poor

This film, which is like no other, gives the impression of a serious gentleness set in a space that seems to have been cut out of a fragment of the world at its beginning. Each sequence seems like a fire growing out of what it consumes. Between heaven and earth, on a wind-swept strip of dry grass, Du soleil pour les gueux (Sunshine for the Poor) observes the choreographed chase of four human specimens – one woman and three men – who clash, race, love and think. Every idea of the world is asserted here a piece at a time, and only comes to light when it is formulated as if it did not pre-exist its own expression. (Jean-Claude Guiget, filmmaker)