Director: | Anne-Sophie Bailly |
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Production: | Les Films Pelléas (David Thion) |
Running Time: | 95' |
Language: | French |
Country: | France |
Main Cast: | Laure Calamy, Charles Peccia Galletto, Julie Froger |
Screenplay: | Anne-Sophie Bailly |
Cinematographer: | Nader Chalhoub |
Editor: | Quentin Sombsthay, François Quiqueré |
Production Designer: | Clémence Ney |
Costume Designer: | Floriane Gaudin |
Music: | Jean Thévenin |
Sound: | Pierre-Louis Clairin, Adrien Cannepin, Xavier Thieulin |
Mon inséparable
Synopsis
Mona lives with her adult son, Joël, in a small apartment in the Paris suburbs. Now in his early thirties, Joël is “slow” as they say. He works in a specialised facility. He is passionately in love with his coworker Océane, who is also disabled.
Mona, however, knows nothing of their relationship. When Océane becomes pregnant, a choice must be made, and the symbiotic bond between mother and son falters.
Director's statement
The proud, nervous silhouette of a mother, the uneven gait of her son, the blue eyes of his lover beckoning towards the open sea. Three bodies, three characters in search of freedom, while everything constrains and binds them. Mona has been taking care of her grown-up son Joël since childhood. This care is as much a gift as a curse, tying them together in a complex co-dependency. Joël and Océane are different. And yet, like everyone else, they desire and love each other, to the point of considering having a child. Who are we to judge their ability to take care of someone else? Mona’s gaze, tender and worried, reflects the abyss of my questions: what rights—and duties—do we have over each other? Over one’s bodies and lives?
PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCTION: Les Films Pelléas – David Thion
25 rue Michel Le Comte
75003, Paris, France
Tel. 33 0142743100
david.thion@pelleas.fr
ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION: I Wonder Pictures
Tel. 39 051 4070166
WORLD SALES: Les films du Losange - Raphaelle Quinet
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75010, Paris, France
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r.quinet@filmsdulosange.fr
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