Passe-parole

A strange and macabre discovery in Paris in 2019: two bodies are found in the pond of a peaceful park. This is fuel for speculation, also by the group of friends in Cross Words. As the news story takes on a life of its own, we gradually get to know these young people in their thirties. “This article is full of shit,” immediately says Boris at a party. He claims he was there when the bodies were found, and he totally disagrees with the conclusions drawn by the police - though his friends question his version of the story. But that’s not all they talk about. Filmmaker Mario Valero follows their conversations and relationships up to 2021. From break-ups to crossword puzzles, an unwanted pregnancy to the Covid pandemic, the lives of these friends flow by in a relaxed and entirely natural way - although the boundary between fiction and reality sometimes feels paper thin. This provocative portrait of a generation, centering on stories and relationships, feels especially warm and vivid thanks to the home video-like camera style in classic 4:3 aspect ratio. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)