Synopsis
Marie is fifty and works in a supermarket. She is lonely. Robert is fifty and works as guard in a parking lot. He is lonely. One evening Marie encounters Robert in front of a distributor of cassettes of a videoclub. They exchange a few words and go their ways. We see them then again confronted with their solitude. Will they meet again? Speak to each other again? For longer?
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : 31 Juin Films
- Co-production : Les Films du Requin
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producers : Emmanuel Barraux, Agnès Vallée
- Screenwriter : Ji-Hong Joo
- Director of photography : Gertrude Baillot
- Music Composer : Thomas Girardin
- Editor : Sébastien De Sainte Croix
- Sound recordists : Benjamin Laurent, Anne Maisonhaute
- Co-producer : Jean Des Forêts
- Production Designer : Tiphaine Selosse
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Encounters, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2004
- Runtime : 15 min 22 seconds
- Visa number : 107.745
- Visa issue date : 05/03/2004
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
- Rating restrictions : None
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