PARIS: Two years ago, Guillaume Broche stepped into a small theatre on the backstreets of Paris armed with motion-capture equipment and an angsty script about a mythical being known as the paintress who has the power to kill anyone with a flick of her brush.
The actors who rehearsed with iPhones strapped to their heads, capturing every eyebrow twitch and stifled smirk, were not staging a play. They were filming scenes for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a role-playing video game celebrated for its engaging turn-based combat and an emotional story with more twists than a French braid.
