Living High, a treehouse tale

Somewhere in eastern France, a man moves from branch to branch through the tree canopy. Xavier Marmier is a climber, tree surgeon, and poet. His home is a tree house suspended twelve meters high in a hundred-year-old beech tree. Xavier's life in the woods is an adventure, a beautiful dream, but also a political gesture. The law forbids him from living this way, seeking to uproot him from his home and bring him back down to earth. Despite this, he hangs on, stubborn as a weed that has taken root where it shouldn’t.

Part arboreal western, part chronicle of an ecological utopia, and part homage to the cult novel The Baron in the Trees, filmmaker Laurent Védrine captures the acrobatic life of a tree lover confronted with social norms and French housing laws. This is a story of branches and roots, freedom and defiance, recounted from the canopy of the trees.