Those Facing Us

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Those Facing Us (2001)

Directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet

Drama · 1h 32m

In a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes to retreive a suitcase belonging to Sébastien, her companion and Mikael's friend. It contains hundreds of photographs from all over the world. While he is travelling, Sébastien has asked Linda to organise the photographs with a view to an exhibition. Mikael invites Linda to reside with him. She accepts. That is the heart of the film – an intertwining of photographs which, juxtaposed by Linda, begin to speak. In parallel with this, Linda receives cassette-letters from Sébastien. A subtle relationship is established between Linda, the young debutante, and Mikael, the man of experience. Mikael goes off to direct his psalm, Linda stays alone. The walls become covered with photographs – wall of happiness, wall of misery – the fight between Good and Evil. Linda learns of the accidental death of Sébastien and stays alone.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Writer
Jean-Daniel Pollet, Laurent Roth
Director of Photography
Acácio de Almeida
Original Music Composer
Antoine Duhamel
Editor
Françoise Geissler
Producer
Marie-Claude Reverdin

Details

Original title
Ceux d'en face
Release date
2001-09-26
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France
Production
Cauri Films, ARTE France Cinéma