Cycles
Synopsis
Frida, a seventy-five-year old Ashkenazi Jew, is losing her memory and confuses the past with the present. Judith, her daughter, chose not to work in order to stay at home to look after her children. Now divorced, she must cope with her youngest son leaving home and her mother’s ageing, and wonders what her purpose in life is. Simon, Frida’s son, shows great perspicacity about the world in his journalism, but is blind to the changes his daughter is going through and to his mother’s confusion.
Frida returns to the apartment she used to live in, believing she’ll meet her husband, who’s been dead for several years, there. Instead she encounters thirty-five-year old Manou, her tenant, who is expecting a promotion. But she becomes pregnant and must make a choice.
The return to this apartment, the crossroads of their lives, allows these characters to find each other and themselves again. Their tales touch upon the passing of time, the changes we all grow through as we grow older – the inevit...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (16)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Delante Films
- Co-production : SND
- Foreign production companies : Vega Film, Black Forest Film
- French distribution : Zelig Films Distribution
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producers : Caroline Adrian, Antoine Rein
- Screenwriter : Cyril Gelblat
- Director of Photography : Jean-Marc Fabre
- Music Composer : Ali N. Askin
- Assistant director : Shirel Amitay
- Editors : Emmanuelle Castro, Thomas Marchand, Nathalie Hubert
- Sound recordists : Erwan Kerzanet, François Musy
- Costume designer : Esther Walz
- Foreign producer : Ruth Waldburger
- Associate Producer : Fabrice Goldstein
- Production Manager : Yorick Kalbache
- Press Attaché (film) : Florence Narozny
- Continuity supervisor : Camille Brottes
- Production Designer : Manu De Chauvigny
- Casting : Richard Rousseau
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
