Mooncalf
Synopsis
Julien, 20, is a grownup boy who relates to the outside world in a complex, inscrutable manner. Though treated like a mental defective at school, he is regarded as a gentle, comical dreamer at home. His mother, confronted with increasing turmoil among the family and desperately resisting pressure to send Julien to an institution, brings in a “shrink” to give therapy sessions to the whole family, unfortunately with no results. The solution eventually comes from elsewhere: the father’s courage and a long-kept secret finally revealed...
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Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Ciné-@
- Co-production : Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
- French distribution : Rezo Films
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producer : Philippe Carcassonne
- Screenwriter : Claude Mouriéras
- Director of Photography : William Lubtchansky
- Music Composer : Bertrand Lenclos
- Assistant directors : Marie-Jeanne Pascal, Manuel Pouet
- Editor : Monique Dartonne
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Pierre Duret
- Costume designer : Brigitte Lauber
- Sound Assistant : Jonathan Acbard
- Production managers : Brigitte Faure, Philippe Jacquier
- Sound Editor : Nicolas Naegelen
- Production Designers : Wouter Zoon, Jean-Pierre Cortines
- Sound Mixer : Dominique Gaborieau
- Still Photographer : Frédéric Goujon
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 03/06/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 37 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 92.178
- Visa issue date : 27/05/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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About
I began with an urge to tell a fictional story with characters. I wanted to talk about difference. As I went about creating the parts of Julien and his mother, I approached the question of how far one can accept a child who doesn’t “fit in”. What does it feel like to live with this difference? When Julien’s mother recalls the day she was told that her son wasn’t completely normal and she refused to believe it, the film takes on a special meaning. She is firmly convinced that her boy is beautiful and she’s going to make his beauty radiate through the family. This belief is her strength. People have to believe in each other or they can’t live together. It’s death. At the beginning, the mother is the stronger parent, the one who bears the burden while the father seems to have his head in the stars with the Mir space station. Then the mother loses her footing and goes to pieces before finally picking herself up again. The film is about that, too. (Claude Mouriéras - excerpt from press kit)
