Two filmmakers, two suicides, both on the 5th — coincidence or curse?
A documentary that is half fiction that follows the secrets behind the suicide of Belgium Director Chantal Akerman and French post nouvelle vague filmmaker Jean Eustache, where they both ended their life on the 5th day but in a different month, and 34 years apart. The film records conversations and confessions with award-winning filmmakers and actors from Beirut, Brussels and Paris as well as a very interesting afternoon with Jean Eustache's Son Boris who tells us everything.
Direction
Alhashem blurs fiction/reality like Akerman blurred time.
Acting
Boris Eustache's raw afternoon confession — devastating.
Director
Farah Alhashem
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Akerman died October 5, 2015; Eustache November 5, 1981. The film treats this as cosmic pattern rather than coincidence.
Alhashem shot across Beirut, Brussels and Paris — the three cities that defined Akerman's fractured identity as daughter of Holocaust survivors.
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