A Parting Shot

Pas douce

France, Switzerland

2007

84 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Didier Haudepin, Pierre-Alain Meier

CAST Isild Le Besco, Lio, Steven de Almeida, Yves Verhoeven, Michel Raskine, Jocelyne Desverchère, Maxime Kathari, Sylvie Huguel, Philippe Vuilleumier, Christophe Sermet

SOUND Henri Maïkoff

Berlinale (Forum), Karlovy Vary (Variety Critics' Choice), San Francisco (New Directors): FIPRESCI Prize

Synopsis

In a wild and isolated mountain region (a small town with only one hospital where she works), a young nurse (Fred, 24) makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt and seriously wounds a rebellious teenager who winds up in her ward.

No one saw her with her rifle. Everybody in town thinks of a crazed hunter.

Panic, cowardice and confrontation mark out a path to redemption.

Picking up a trail of hints left here and there by his young nurse, Marco (a truant 13-year-old who takes his rage out on the world) realizes the unthinkable: she shot him instead of killing herself.

Fred and Marco will each get a fresh start in life… –uniFrance