Synopsis
Left on an answering machine, the message of panting breath drills the silence of a greyish lounge. The room is not empty, a woman in dressing gown roams around it. A young man enters the apartment. She observes him tenderly, sits down beside him. He does not see her. They listen to the messages on the answering machine together, on which hismother, the woman, is assaulted and killed by a stranger. The son leaves in vain to save her and leaves his mother alone and frightened, face to face of her own death and loneliness.
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- Executive Producer : Insolence Productions
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Anaïs Bertrand
- Screenwriter : Kevin Lecomte
- Director of photography : Maryline Touret
- Assistant Director : Samuel Boyer
- Editor : Isabelle Bénet
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Brouard
- Costume designer : Élise Magne
- Production manager : Anaïs Bertrand
- Continuity supervisor : Marie Tramson
- Special Effects : David Scherer
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Horror
- Themes : Death
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2007
- Runtime : 7 min 21 seconds
- Visa number : 121.761
- Visa issue date : 01/12/2011
- Production formats : 70mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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