Synopsis
In Autumn 1985, following the accidental death of his mother, Didier, a 16 year old teenager, comes back to live with his father, Laurent, a Canadian Vietnam War veteran. This is the start of a long and perilous search for love and tenderness between a father and his son that war and its consequences parted brutally twelve years earlier.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-productions : DMVB Films, Les Films Christian Ardan
- Foreign production company : Smac Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Editions Montparnasse
- French distribution : DMVB Films
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriter : Daniel Morin
- Director of Photography : Robert Vanherweghem
- Editor : Hélène Girard
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Michel Rouard
- Costume designer : Francine Desrosiers
- Co-producer : Serge Cohen-Solal
- Production managers : Thierry Forte, Louise Cloutier
- Press Attaché (film) : Laurent Geissmann
- Production Designer : Josée Veillet
- Still Photographer : John Fredericks
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (France, Canada)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 20/05/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 20 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 81.421
- Visa issue date : 02/09/1994
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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"A pleasant little film on the relationship between a father and his son that is both tender and cruel. With, in the role of the young boy, Gérald Thomassin, César for Most Promising Actor in 1991 for his performances as the teenage kidnapper in Jacques Doillon's "Le Petit criminel"."
(Le Quotidien de Paris)
