Synopsis
Adèle is cursed by her father, condemned by the last words of this one for a solitary wandering. Now a young lady, she lives confined in her domain, a prison with the idyllic face, where the nature is at the same time abundant and cold. Not far from there lives Louise, a child in margin rejected by her family. Louise, fascinated by Adèle's unmoved beauty, she observes her from a distance. The distance fades little by little and the young lady learns again to smile from the contact with the child. But while these two solitudes unite, the curse knocks again and Louise falls ill.
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Actresses (2)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : La fémis
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriters : Dounia Sidki, Rémi Giordano
- Director of photography : Sarah Cunningham
- Editor : Mathilde De Romefort
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Dahan
- Production Manager : Antoine Szymalka
- Sound Editor : Grégoire Letouvet
- Continuity supervisor : Mathilde Profit
- Production Designer : Marie D'Alençon
- Production designer : Sidney Dubois
- Sound mixer : Claire Cahu
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Friendship, Femininity, Surrealism
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2009
- Runtime : 30 min 30 seconds
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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