“Rome is not a real city in a real-time present. It is a palimpsest city where the past flows gently out of the present, where the imagery of cinema constantly lies over the visible. That makes it the ideal city for Bernard Plossu. He has always known that the medium is not made to record the pure present stupidly. He knows his eye is inhabited, in silence, by images of the past.” — Alain Bergala