Greek epic poems and first- person journals clash together in Damien Odoul’s most recent film. Théo/To, a young man with Down’s Syndrome–and a martial arts student–has grown isolated from the world, with his father, in a sophisticated house in the middle of the forest. Once he violently gets rid of his strict custodian, he begins a journey of self-discovery. The plot is divided in tableaux-like chapters and the delirious encounters
that define each of them (a serpent, a ninja, an empress, and a stranger) denote To’s late sexual awaking and transform his individual odyssey into a mental journey into the depths of his psyche. In an ironic and naturalistic way, Théo et les métamorphoses approaches the epic tale in order to dissect the complex experience of the world from its protagonist standpoint.
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