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The Man Who Wanted a Child (2007)
Directed by Delphine Gleize
Drama · 1h 27m
Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
Cast
Artus de Penguern
Darry Cowl
Valérie Donzelli
Esther Gorintin
Crew
- Director
- Delphine Gleize
- Screenplay
- Delphine Gleize
- Director of Photography
- Crystel Fournier
- Editor
- François Quiqueré
- Producer
- Bénédicte Couvreur, Jérôme Dopffer
Details
- Original title
- L'homme qui rêvait d'un enfant
- Release date
- 2007-03-21
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Balthazar Productions