A Childhood
As summer drags by, 13-year-old Jimmy, forced by circumstance to become an adult too soon, runs up against the limits of his small hometown and his turbulent life, caught between a mother on the slide and a stepfather who keeps her down.
Philippe Claudel
Casts & Crew
Pierre Deladonchamps
Jules Gauzelin
Patrick d'Assumçao
Alexi Mathieu
Angelica Sarre
Fayssal Benhamed
Catherine Matisse
Lola Dubois
Gérard Barbonnet
Jean-Paul Labé
Philippe Claudel
Christophe Ragonnet
Catherine Zahner-Cloarec
David Finance
Fanny Gourieux
Also Directed by Philippe Claudel
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious young woman. Might there be something sinister behind the roses delivered to his office and the “chance” meetings?
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Alessandro teaches musicology at the university of Strasbourg. He is also a volunteer reader in hospitals. He shares his apartment with his daughter, 15-year-old Irina, and his anarchist brother Luigi. Life is not always rosy at Alessandro's for three main reasons : he is a widower and has never really recovered from the death of his young wife ; his brother is some kind of parasite who refuses to sell his paintings to capitalist speculators and so to contribute to the cost of the household ; Irina, whom he has raised alone since she was five months old and always felt close to, is rapidly changing from little girl to teenager and wishes to be treated as such. One day, Florence, a beautiful young woman, gets into Alessandro's life. Will he eventually take his chances with her? And will he manage to stop stifling Irina? And will he finally get on with Luigi?