THE FORGOTTEN ONE

What luck! To stumble upon her, by chance, a leading authority in her field, a important, even essential figure, – before – and today completely forgotten. The tape recorder soon starts up at the old lady's house to record and above all reproduce a necessarily rare interview, in the middle of a jumble of objects that gives the place the feel of a cabinet of curiosities. The one that is also an amateur archaeologist seems to be interested in the past, in what has been and what what remains, but also to what has disappeared and been forgotten; from memories to ramblings, from evocations to digressions, the discussion follows its winding path and takes us from extinct animals to Egyptian gods, from Gulliver to Jean-Joseph Carriès, and many other things. The Forgotten is a a work of great delicacy, and whose subject refers to many exciting questions: How to interpret the remains of the past? Is memory the key to some form of immortality? And what about all those who have been forgotten? ... On arrival, it is with great sadness finesse, but also inventiveness, that Benoît Preteseille draws, in hollow, the astonishing and touching portrait of this forgotten woman.