A Foreign Body
Synopsis
It's a story which befalls a woman, through a question she's asked : "Are you pregnant ?". She doesn't know, and on the spur of the moment she leaves it hanging. However that doesn't bode well for her boyfriend, who was planning on leaving her : he winds up believing it. Try as he will to tell he doesn't want a child, she does nothing to terminate... because in fact she's not pregnant. Only thing is , she can't manage to tell him. She leaves things be, only to further stave off the dreaded moment of breaking that spell wich draws him to her, conforts her very ill father and delights her entourage. Day by day, the fiction takes hold and nothing can seem to stop it.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (10)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Zélie Productions
- Co-productions : French Production/French Distribution, Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Les Productions du Verseau
- French distribution : Pierre Grise Distribution
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Catherine Jacques
- Screenwriter : Claire Simon
- Director of Photography : Richard Copans
- Music Composers : Archie Shepp, Catherine Ringer
- Assistant Director : Jacques Reboud
- Editor : Catherine Quesemand
- Sound recordists : Dominique Lancelot, Jean-Pierre Laforce
- Costume designer : Anne Autran
- Press Attaché (film) : Marie-Christine Damiens
- Production Designer : Michel Vandestien
- Casting : Luc Leclerc Du Sablon
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Motherhood
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Canada)
- Production year : 1997
- French release : 08/10/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 59 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 88.269
- Visa issue date : 06/10/1997
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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News & awards
Selections (3)
Lisbon - French Film Festival
Portugal, 2000
Cinematheque Program - New French Cinema
Cairo - International Film Festival
Egypt, 1997
Out of Competition
About
"Gestation, birth, childhood, adulthood and death. A simplistic falsehood expressing what in life is both ordinary and miraculous : the birth of a child. The miracle which in this story allows falsehood to flourish, is precisely that ordinary miracle of birth. "A Foreign Body" is an inside-out version : a "fiction" of one of the world's most ordinary stories : a woman becoming a mother." (Claire Simon)
