Esther
Synopsis
A mother and daughter, Esther and Deborah, during a Purim celebration meal, experience a strange evening. Food fills the space, then the mother's dreamlike journey begins with a film of her nephew's Thania (the women's evening that begins the wedding festivities). Her solitary journey takes her back in an instant to her previous life: that of Algeria, of her own marriage, a real fairy tale. The return is violent. Deborah also knows it.
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Director (1)
Actresses (2)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Films de la Passion
- Co-production : GREC - Groupe de Recherches et d'Essais Cinématographiques
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producer : Béatrice Jalbert
- Screenwriter : Jacqueline Gozland
- Director of photography : Dominique Le Rigoleur
- Editors : Dominique Auvray, Simone Bitton
- Sound Recordist : Claude Bertrand
- Costume designer : Christian Gasc
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Lamps
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Exile, Family
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1984
- Runtime : 13 min
- Visa number : 57.989
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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French selections:
Perspectives du Cinéma Français (1985) - Grenoble (Special Jury Prize) - Clermont-Ferrand - Créteil - Avignon - Angoulême (2021)
International selections:
Jerusalem - Munich - Sorrento - Montreal
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