A Thousand and One Days, A Thousand and One Nights
Arléa Editions, 2004
Reading by Rachida Brakni at the Comédie-Française
What can I tell you? The stone, the chariot, the olive trees that are being cut down?
Of course I will tell you about it... I will also tell you stories, faces and hope: a thousand and one paths that will lead to peace.
A day.
The night shines for a moment, then it is day again.
Le Figaro: "Frédéric Laffont, a great reporter accustomed to conflicts, has taken a step aside. He thus embodies
this "peace camp" that is said to be bloodless. It gives a lesson in humanity rather than a lesson in history.
France Inter, L'Humeur Vagabonde: "A particularly hot topic, about which it is very difficult
to make other voices heard than those of hateful certainties and partisan simplifications (…).
Frédéric Laffont has piously collected what he calls "peace dust," little stories
bittersweet notes that make us believe, for the duration of the story, that not everything is definitively destroyed on this land called "Holy".
A poetic story, a precise document, a dreamlike fiction, in any case an unclassifiable film and book.
Télérama: “Frédéric Laffont, author of remarkable documentaries, is a seasoned storyteller (…).
These war diaries, written in the first person and spoken by a woman's voice, are a sensitive hymn to survival and peace. They take the back roads, they listen to people, they look for reasons to hope. The best way to walk, in short.
