Le religieux, la maladie et l’enfant dans le cinéma du début du XXIe siècle
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Summary/Abstract: “The twenty-first century will be religious – or not at all.” This sentence, erroneously attributed to André Malraux, resonates even in filmmaking. Two films in particular are to be noted for the calibre of their cinematography and of their subject matter : Oscar et la dame rose, a FrancoBelgian-Canadian film by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt (2009) and Camino, a Spanish film by Javier Fesser (2008). Two children diagnosed with cancer, a boy of 10 and a girl of 11, embark on a spiritual journey during their illnesses. The dramatic tension provides the directors with the opportunity to deal with the ever-present problem of suffering, the injustice of illness striking the young, and the concept of God. We examine the religious aspect both through the circumstances accruing in the two films and through the way in which this translates into the characters.

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