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The end of vacation

Raphaël Venayre, Antoine Guerci • Belgium • 2023 • 24 min
Romanian Premiere
Several hotels in a luxury resort in Tunisia have been converted into retirement homes. Here Western residents enjoy a perpetual vacation with their carers.
In Yasmine Hammamet, a seaside resort, several hotels are on the verge of bankruptcy, so the managers have decided to make them permanently inhabited by elderly Western residents. Perhaps this is what life after death is supposed to look like, but the contrast between the opulence of a place originally intended for luxury vacations that has lost its former glory and the scenes of the daily lives of people in advanced stages of dementia or physical decay is striking. The movie conveys a state of expectation, the place itself seems unreal, like a movie set, death is no longer a threat, it's a reconciliation, a predictable end to a vacation.
Original Title:La fin des vacances
Directors:Raphaël Venayre,Antoine Guerci
Sound: Raphaël Venayre
Cinematographer: Antoine Guerci
Production Company: INSAS

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