A Man of His Time
September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut (Our Salvation), the 49-year-old is determined to secure what he believes is his rightful place in the new administration. In his writing, Henri sets out his patriotic convictions and his engineer’s methodology: efficiency above all. Claiming he wants to help save France after defeat, he does whatever is required to remain useful, serving the machinery of the new order with increasing skill. But he may be pursuing something more urgent: escape from his own ruin
This film offers an unsettling, cynical journey through moral compromise. It's a darkly comedic character study of a man navigating an authoritarian regime with bureaucratic precision, blurring the lines between self-preservation and complicity. The atmosphere is subtly tense, with an ironic undercurrent.
