Flora is the title of this beautiful documentary made in 2013 by Jean-Albert Lièvre which will be released in theaters on September 24, 2014. It has already been talked about by being screened at the 31st environmental film festival in Paris, out of competition, then at the Los Angeles French Film Festival COLCOA where it received the award for Best Documentary, and finally in New York during the Socially Relevant Film Festival .
Her name is Flore and it has been several years since this painter was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The caregivers sent her to a specialized institution, without much success, then a second, with no more success. With the treatments that were administered to her, she had metamorphosed, no longer speaking, unable to eat, express an emotion or walk but becoming more and more violent, aggressive, and therefore finally "unmanageable". Placement in a "safe" house was what the doctors advised, to get out of it.
Fortunately, his children - the director of the film and his sister Véronique - decided to try something else:to install him in their family home, in Corsica, surrounded by an extraordinary team, adapted. Little by little, she will be "reborn", not heal, but be herself and live with her illness:finally regaining her dignity.
Filming lasted three years and this is the first "social" feature film by Jean-Albert Lièvre, essentially an environmental and animal documentary filmmaker. It's rather successful for a premiere because we feel the son's tender gaze in the filmed images, supported by a voice-over which completes the information. The association for research on Alzheimer's sees in it "a film of love, attention to others, hope and resilience of patients with Alzheimer's disease. A film that opens a door to the hope of a better world for "our old people" ".
