This film is based on the deeply held conviction that everything
we express through the voice is the "product" of our quest for closer contact with another person, with love and every possible expression of love. In order to verify this fundamental idea, I invited singers
to the Abbey of Royaumont, to create situations and provoke debate between them and their companions, wives, husbands, lovers, girlfriends and children. Every "loving couple" stayed 1-2 days with me, and following the inspiration and alchemy of the moment,
I directed planned situations which "resolved" themselves through music.
Knowing personally the singers and artists, I could count on them
to show complete confidence in me.
I chose the location of the shoot, originally a 13th century abbey founded by Saint Louis, to give a poetic and dramatic dimension
to this filmed stylistic composition.
The Abbey's spiritual and theatrical atmosphere enabled me to demonstrate the links between the sex drive, which is transformed
into friendship, and from friendship into love, the finest human expression, revealed here through music. Werner Schroeter