Synopsis
A short film about the summer Penny taught a little boy English. Its apparent simplicity hides a surprising density. The Didier Connection took 37 years to complete (rushes lost, then found), but it is crisp, refreshing, optimistic, even seductive, like early Truffaut. Submerged in the narrative momentum is a poignant longing for a life and time that can be experienced in memory but no longer touched, visible only through time's unreliable telephoto lens.
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- Screenwriter : Penny Allen
- Director of Photography : Eric Edwards
- Editor : Frederik Arens-Grandin
- Producer : Penny Allen
- Assistant Operator : John Platt
- Continuity supervisor : Penny Allen
- Participants : Penny Allen, Didier, Eric Silverstein
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Drama, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Childhood, Identity, Immigration, Sociology
- Production language : English, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2013
- Runtime : 12 min 15 seconds
- Visa number : 136.759
- Visa issue date : 09/08/2013
- Production formats : Video
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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