Synopsis
Mathias is a young, somber and withdrawn man, whose melancholy and anxieties prevent from living a full life. He's barely surviving and no longer knows how to talk to the woman he loves and makes a stranger believe that, like her, he's suffering from a serious illness. He no longer knows how to live because he doesn't yet know that life has more imagination than he does. Because he doesn't yet know that we can die several times over - to be reborn again.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (4)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Les Productions Balthazar
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producer : Bénédicte Couvreur
- Screenwriter : Dorothée Sebbagh
- Director of photography : Céline Bozon
- Editor : François Quiqueré
- Sound Recordist : Maxime Gavaudan
- Continuity supervisor : Virginie Prin
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Illness, Identity
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2004
- Runtime : 17 min
- Visa number : 109.165
- Visa issue date : 23/09/2004
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
- Rating restrictions : None
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