The Albatross
Synopsis
Antoine is twenty-eight. His teenager crisis is just cming to an end. He asks himself what on earth he can do with his adult life. Antoine meets his father with whom he has trouble communicating, congealed in his enactment of maturity. The latter tells him that he has a half sister and that she has just committed suicide. A sister? Here is already an event. The opportunity is too beautiful for Antoine who waits for nothing as long as something arrives. Not having a real tie anymore in Bordeaux, he decides to follow the tracks of this mysterious sister. He goes away to find her house, in Landes. Over there, he finds a weapon, boredom, a little enjoyment also. When he returns to Bordeaux, he has aged.
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Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Année Zéro
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producers : Stéphane Demoustier, Guillaume Dreyfus, Maya Haffar
- Screenwriter : Emmanuel Bonnat
- Directors of Photography : Élie Girard, Charles Wilhelem
- Music Composer : Emmanuel Bonnat
- Assistant director : Lucile Jacques
- Editor : Julie Duclaux
- Sound Recordist : Francis Bernard
- Assistant Operator : Benjamin Meignan
- Production manager : Maya Haffar
- Continuity supervisor : Julie Duclaux
- Sound Mixer : Vincent Verdoux
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2012
- Runtime : 37 min 10 seconds
- Visa number : 131.807
- Visa issue date : 07/08/2013
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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