The “hero” of Le Moindre Geste, the almost unique character is Yves, considered in 1950 to be irredeemable among thousands and thousands of others. The only obvious solution was to commit him to an institution approved for this kind of interminable day care.
Taken in charge by an educator (Fernand Deligny) whose first aim was to denounce the arbitrariness of simple prognoses, Yves became, in 1962, the central character of a film shot over two years, where the small research group that had been Yves’ “close environment” for years stayed, in the Cévennes.
A film “beautiful as Murnau ”.
Jacques Rivette
" A poem of images and sounds, black and white images of raw magnificence, Yves’s incredible voice, somewhere between delirious genius and comic genius, where auditory memories of the voices of Antonin Artaud, Michel Simon or General de Gaulle pass through. It’s also a political manifesto of undiminished, if not multiplied, radicalism, as well as a veritable aesthetic bomb. A palimpsest film bearing the memory of the eras that saw its birth and rebirth, of the battles that gave birth to it, of the lives that gave themselves to it, Le Moindre Geste burns with the most necessary of fires”.
Jean-Michel Frodon, Le Monde May 23, 2002
