La Boîte magique
Synopsis
Tunisia today…
Raouf, a well known filmmaker, is deeply unhappy about his disintegrating relationship with his French wife. She rejects the confinement in which she feels she’s been prisoner for too long, far from her homeland. She’s bitter and fed up and the atmosphere at home is tense.
A European television channel commissions Raouf to make a film about the relationship between children and cinema. This leads him to make an intense and nostalgic reverie about his childhood spent in Kairouan.
Torn between his oppressive father, an authoritarian and religious person unwilling to make any concessions, and his irresistible discovery of cinema, a universe of dreams and freedom, Raouf experiences his first emotions and desire for rebellion.
He’s supported and accompanied by his maternal uncle, Mansour, a roaming projectionist who lives in the town’s brothel.
He initiates young Raouf to the ways of love, to life.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Films & Trames
- Foreign production company : Alya Films
- French distribution : Films & Trames
Full credits (14)
- Screenwriter : Ridha Behi
- Director of Photography : Yorgos Arvanitis
- Music Composer : Lotfi Bouchnak
- Assistant director : Josette Barnetche
- Editor : France Duez
- Sound Recordist : Faouzi Thabet
- Foreign Producer : Ridha Behi
- Assistant Operator : Néwine Behi
- Production Manager : Sacha Guillaume
- Press Attaché (film) : Vanessa Jerrom
- Sound editor : Ingrid Ralet
- Assistant editors : Séverine Cava, Anna Riche
- Production Designer : Taoufik Behi
- Sound Mixer : Philippe Baudhuin
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Tunisia, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Tunisia, France)
- Production year : 2003
- French release : 25/06/2003
- Runtime : 1 h 34 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 103.455
- Visa issue date : 30/04/2003
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
