Alex and Noémie, both in their thirties, want a child. But their plans are upset when Alex’s mother, Suzanne, starts acting rather bizarrely.
It is due to her suffering from “semantic dementia,” a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that influences her behavior. She spends money recklessly, visits her neighbors in the middle of the night to eat slices of bread, and cobbles together a fake driver’s license for herself with scissors and glue.
Suzanne the mother becomes an uncontrollable child. An unexpected and unusual parenting boot camp for Noémie and Alex!
As Aurore Engelen stated in Cineuropa about the filmmakers: "Thanks to their particular method of working, the film's striking set up and its delicate yet deeply moving balance between humour and emotion, they manage, without ever shying away from the gravity of the situation, to address a heavy subject with imagination and light-heartedness, finding a clever solution to the rich equation made possible by cinema: a tragic background multiplied by a comic form equals emotion."
(September 24-30 - You have any time between 12:00am on September 24 and 11:59pm on September 30 to start the film. You will have 24 hours from that time to finish the screening.)
Oregon only
Raphael Balboni & Ann Sirot, Directors
- Year2021
- Runtime87 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryBelgium
- DirectorAnn Sirot, Raphael Balboni
- ScreenwriterAnn Sirot, Raphael Balboni
- ProducerJulie Esparbes
- CinematographerJorge Piquer Rodríguez
- Sound DesignJulien Mizac
- MusicAngele Monchaux
Alex and Noémie, both in their thirties, want a child. But their plans are upset when Alex’s mother, Suzanne, starts acting rather bizarrely.
It is due to her suffering from “semantic dementia,” a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that influences her behavior. She spends money recklessly, visits her neighbors in the middle of the night to eat slices of bread, and cobbles together a fake driver’s license for herself with scissors and glue.
Suzanne the mother becomes an uncontrollable child. An unexpected and unusual parenting boot camp for Noémie and Alex!
As Aurore Engelen stated in Cineuropa about the filmmakers: "Thanks to their particular method of working, the film's striking set up and its delicate yet deeply moving balance between humour and emotion, they manage, without ever shying away from the gravity of the situation, to address a heavy subject with imagination and light-heartedness, finding a clever solution to the rich equation made possible by cinema: a tragic background multiplied by a comic form equals emotion."
(September 24-30 - You have any time between 12:00am on September 24 and 11:59pm on September 30 to start the film. You will have 24 hours from that time to finish the screening.)
Oregon only
Raphael Balboni & Ann Sirot, Directors
- Year2021
- Runtime87 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryBelgium
- DirectorAnn Sirot, Raphael Balboni
- ScreenwriterAnn Sirot, Raphael Balboni
- ProducerJulie Esparbes
- CinematographerJorge Piquer Rodríguez
- Sound DesignJulien Mizac
- MusicAngele Monchaux