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Belhorizon

Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland

2005

84 Min
Color
1.66:1
French, Spanish
Subtitled in English
Audio in French
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DIR Inès Rabadán

PROD Jean-Luc Ormières, Pierre-André Thiébaud

SCR Inès Rabadán, Laurent Brandenbourger

DP Sabine Lancelin

CAST Emmanuel Salinger, Nathalie Richard, Bruno Putzulu, Claude Perron, Saskia Mulder, Ilona Del Marle, Frédéric Dussenne, Manuel Morón, Manuela Sanchez, Carlo Brandt, Alice Toen

ED Fred Meert

PROD DES Isabelle Girard, Christian Marti

MUSIC Marie-Eve Ronveaux

SOUND Luc Yersin, Franco Piscopo

Synopsis

Carl, together with his posh friends, intends to buy Belhorizon, a luxurious hotel with the idea of turning it into an upmarket hunting lodge. The “hotel” however, turns out to be a rather kitsch, run-down boarding house run by an immigrant Spanish couple and their solitary, young daughter Esmé who is desperate to get away. At first Carl is extremely irritated and embarrased by the place, but he decides to let go… He hasn’t been himself since the recent decline of his father’s fortune. Carl and Esmé, worlds apart, are magnetically drawn to each other. Then Simon, Carl’s associate arrives with a bunch of fancy friends and trouble begins… A wink to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a dark comedy about the confrontation of the social classes. –Celluloid Dreams

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Lorna Singh

30Mar10

For the 80 minutes of this film i kept waiting for an interesting character to appear.And worse,for something to happen in that setting so suited for drama. Yes,clearly a commentary on people with money--self absorbed,irresponsible,trying to kill time.But the Spanish immigrants and their daughter were not even portrayed as real. And where did those "out of nowhere" dream sequences come from?

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