Synopsis
The day of David's wedding, Robert, his eighty-two-year-old father, who is physically ill and who is beginning to go slightly off the rails, asks for his son's help in finding him a woman. Struggling to understand this incongruous request and balking at betraying his mother, David is evasive, then hesitates. He's never had the affectionate sharing and complicity that he'd hoped for with his father; what if this request were the opportunity to strike up the father/son dialog that is so badly missing? David goes on a stroll with Robert and the two men soon find themselves searching for prostitute for the elderly man.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (4)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Agat Films - Ex nihilo
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Patrick Sobelman
- Screenwriter : Marina De Van
- Director of photography : Jeanne Lapoirie
- Music Composer : Foreign Office (Groupe)
- Assistant director : Céline Dupuis
- Editor : Monica Coleman
- Sound Recordist : Jérôme Aghion
- Costume designer : Clémentine Rousselot
- Sound Editor : Raphaël Girardot
- Production Designer : Valérie Valéro
- Sound Mixer : Emmanuel Croset
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Family, Prostitution
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2006
- Runtime : 35 min
- Visa number : 116.178
- Visa issue date : 28/06/2007
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
Selections (6)
Awards (3)
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
France, 2007
Mention spéciale du jury jeune national
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