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Our Children

À perdre la raison

Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland

2012

106 Min
Color
2.35:1
French, Arabic
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DIR Joachim Lafosse

PROD Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart

SCR Joachim Lafosse, Thomas Bidegain, Matthieu Reynaert

DP Jean-François Hensgens

CAST Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne, Niels Arestrup, Stéphane Bissot, Mounia Raoui, Redouane Behache, Baya Belal, Nathalie Boutefeu, Yannick Renier

ED Sophie Vercruysse

PROD DES Anna Falguères

SOUND Vandermeersch Thibaut

Cannes (Un Certain Regard): Best Actress, Karlovy Vary (Horizons), New York, AFI FEST (World Cinema), CPH PIX (Politiken's Audience Award)

Synopsis

Murielle and Mounir love each other passionately. Since childhood, the Murielle lives with Dr. Pinget, which has afforded Mounir an easy (material) life. When Mounir and Murielle decide to marry and have children, the dependence of the torque to the doctor becomes excessive. Murielle finds himself locked in a suffocating emotional atmosphere, leading the family to a tragic outcome.

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Joachim Lafosse

Joachim Lafosse (born 18 January 1975, Uccle) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. Lafosse studied at the IAD (Institut des arts de diffusion) at Louvain-la-Neuve between 1997 and 2001. His graduation film Tribu, a 24-minute short, won the best Belgian short subject category at the 2001 Namur Film Festival. His first full length feature, Folie Privée (2004), won the FIPRESCI award at the Bratislava International Film Festival., and the semi-autobiographical Ça rend heureux (2006) took the Grand Prix at the 2007 Premiers Plans d’Angers festival. 2006 also saw the release of Nue Propriété, starring Isabelle Huppert and brothers Jérémie and Yannick Renier, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival where it was nominated for the Golden Lion and won a SIGNIS award. His latest film is Élève libre.

His 2012 film Loving Without Reason competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia 

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novanindro

18May13

under the influence

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Matt Richards

28Mar13

Intelligent writing, well formed characters and mature execution all add considerable weight to this uneasy and topical study of infanticide within a complex family unit. It's wonderful to see Arestrup and Rahir back together again in vastly different roles to Un Prophete. Some of the Moroccan actors are a little less convincing but this is well worth a watch. Recommended 4 stars

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2Aug12

a KVIFF screening, a 7/10 my review: http://lasttimeisawdotcom.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/last-film-i-saw-our-children/

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Les films du miroir magique

28May12

Très belle prestation d'Emilie Dequenne, que l'on avait perdue de vue depuis "Rosetta" et qui mérite son prix d'interprétation féminine.

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[Last Film I Saw] Our Children

By lasttim​eisaw on August 2, 2012

English Title: Our Children
Original Title: À perdre la raison
Year: 2012
Language: French, Arabic
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland
Genre: Drama
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