Life is on the Other Side
Synopsis
Death, it is perfect happiness exults my grandmother celebrating her ninetieth birthday during a macabre practical joke of which the family has the secret. Happiness seems perfect also in these images of 1943, shot by her and her close relations, taken refuge in Chambon-sur-Lignon. As if to play and laugh at death was the only means to avert the obsession. This dumb obsession, I take it to Benares, in India, where the living and the dead share the same territory.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : La Vie est Belle
Full credits (4)
- Executive Producer : Céline Maugis
- Screenwriter : Elsa Quinette
- Director of photography : Elsa Quinette
- Editor : Claire Atherton
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Family, Death
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2011
- Runtime : 58 min
- Visa number : 131.078
- Visa issue date : 12/11/2011
- Production formats : DV-CAM
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 4/3
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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