Paris-based director Valentin Petit found inspiration for her latest film, exploring the experience of those with synaesthesia—a perceptual phenomenon where the stimulation of one sensory pathway triggers another—after reading Daniel Tammet’s autobiographical novel, Born on a Blue Day. Twisting reality yet further, Petit imbues Lou, the film’s protagonist, with surreal and mind-bending supernatural abilities. “The choice to give Lou supernatural abilities was to demonstrate our inability to understand something which is so intimate and personal. Entering into the fantastical allowed the film to pose challenging questions to the other main characters, Marius and Pablo, who must confront a phenomenon that defies belief.”
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