A dead father's final hours, pieced together by the son who never met him. Devastating.
During WW-I Odette gets to know that her husband André has fallen. Her littler son never saw him. He tries to recapitulate his last hours.
Direction
Malavoy's debut: confident, patient, unsentimental.
Cinematography
Bleached WWI landscapes as dreamscape.
Director
Christophe Malavoy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Malavoy, primarily known as an actor, wrote the screenplay based on his grandfather's unprocessed WWI trauma.
Part of a quiet wave of early-2000s French cinema revisiting WWI through domestic, feminine perspectives rather than battlefield heroics.
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