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Esther Kahn (2000)

Esther Kahn

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Film overview :
Director : Arnaud Desplechin
Actors : Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Fabrice Desplechin, Frances Barber, Laszlo Szabo, Emmanuelle Devos
Feature film, Fiction
Production language : English
Nationality : Majority French (Great Britain)
French release : 10/4/00
Runtime : 2h 25mn
Current status : Released
Official website : www.estherkahn.com
Associate production company : Why Not Productions
Co-production : Films Alain Sarde (Les), France 3 Cinéma, France 2 Cinéma
French distribution : Bac Films
Film export/Foreign Sales : StudioCanal
Synopsis
London at the end of the 19th century.
Esther Kahn lives in the East End, child of Jewish immigrants.
They all work in the family’s tailor shop. Esther is slow and closed in on herself, she voices no opinions about anything, no feelings for anyone; Esther is stone.
It’s when she goes to the theater that Esther “awakens” and comes to life, for she doesn’t look at plays in the same way that others do, she lives them.
She decides to become an actress.
Thus begins her apprenticeship in the theater and the world which culminates one night, on stage, when she suddenly feels the effects of twenty years of repressed existence surge from within her.
Festival selections
> Cannes - Film Market - 2000 :
- Selection : StudioCanal
> Cannes - International Film Festival - 2000 :
- Official Competition - Feature Films
> Munich - International Film Festival - 2000 :
- Films selected
> New York - Rendez-vous with French Cinema Today - 2001 :
- Films selected
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