Synopsis
Albertine loves her family – her brother Thomas, a gardener, her mother and Sophie, her eight-year-old daughter. But Albertine has a serious failing: she’s a meddler. She just can’t mind her own business, ever, and tries to direct her little tribe as she sees fit. In her own style, confidential and “homely,” she is a downright tyrant. Whether they like it or not, Thomas, Sophie and her grandmother just go along with Albertine, out of love for her. But while this gets them down, what can they do to reduce her to silence, so that they can at last live their own lives?
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (3)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Heure d'Été Productions
- Foreign production company : Qwazi Qwazi Film
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producer : Patrice Nezan
- Screenwriter : Alfredo Diaz Perez
- Director of Photography : Jako Raybaut
- Music Composer : Olivier Darimont
- Editor : Julie Brenta
- Sound Recordist : Frédéric Fontaine
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Musical
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium)
- Production year : 2000
- Runtime : 14 min
- Visa number : 96.944
- Visa issue date : 11/08/2000
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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