- May 16, 2023
Le souffle du canon - Documentary - Nicolas Mingasson - 2020
Le souffle du canon is a documentary that plunges us into the Army's Center for the Wounded. Located in the heart of the Mercantour park, the center takes in former soldiers, both combatants and soldiers from the rear, who are suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). From the very first minutes, we are reminded of the reality of this invisible, yet very real, psychological injury. In front of Nicolas Mingasson's camera, they bear raw, painful witness to their inability to banish images of fear, their nights of nightmares, their violent impulses, their hallucinations, their hypervigilance... In other words, they recount and share their destruction with each other. Using a range of tools, the soldiers embark on a long and essential journey of reconstruction, gradually regaining a taste for life and questioning their future.
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