Synopsis
The day before he becomes forty, a man announces to his mother that he will not go to the traditional Sunday lunch at aunt Éliane. What provokes a small scandal because he has never missed a family gathering. He likes then to dream that he returns finally towards the only love of his life, a girl met on a beach when he was seventeen years old and whom he never went to find. Until this day.
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Director (1)
Actors (5)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Jeudi
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Jeudi
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Laurence Braunberger
- Screenwriter : Jean Rousselot
- Director of Photography : Pierre Barougier
- Music Composer : Bruno Coulais
- Editor : Coline Beuvelet
- Sound recordists : Jérôme Aghion, Alexandre Hecker, Vincent Piponnier
- Costume designer : Fabienne Gauthier
- Production Designer : Anastasia Piatakhina
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Social comedy
- Themes : Love, Family
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2003
- Runtime : 19 min
- Visa number : 104.752
- Visa issue date : 13/11/2003
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
- Rating restrictions : None
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Scenario based on a short story by Annie Saumont: "Birthday"
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