Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium

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Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium (1991)

Directed by Boris Lehman

Documentary, Comedy · 6h 20m

The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the centre of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be “babelised“).

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Cast

Boris Lehman self
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Nathalie Balou self François Beukelaers self
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Maggy Collard self
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Kathleen de Béthune self
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Chistine Defrise self

Crew

Director
Boris Lehman
Writer
Boris Lehman

Details

Original title
Babel - lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique
Release date
1991-01-01
Runtime
6h 20m
Genres
Documentary, Comedy
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
Belgium
Production
Dovfilm, Paradise Films