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The Iceberg

L'iceberg

Belgium

2005

84 Min
Color
French
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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DIR Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy

PROD André Guéret, Arlette Zylberberg

SCR Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy

DP Sébastien Koeppel

CAST Lucy Tulugarjuk, Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Philippe Martz, Thérèse Fichet

ED Sandrine Deegen

PROD DES Laura Couderc

MUSIC Jacques Luley

San Sebastián (New Directors), Karlovy Vary (Focus on Belgian Cinema)

Synopsis

Fiona, Julien and their two clone-like children live a life appropriate to the robots they have become, in a style-less, cheerless suburb somewhere in the flatlands of French-speaking Europe. Even the simple act of buttering and eating a roll takes on the appearance of an assembly line. When Fiona, who manages a fast-food restaurant, accidentally locks herself in the restaurant’s walk-in freezer overnight, her family doesn’t even miss her. She realizes how pointless her life has become and runs away; to seek happiness, put her life right again and perhaps to visit the icebergs with which she begins an obsession. On a bus trip to nowhere, she becomes friendly with an older lady, Fernande, who offers Fiona a place to stay and diversion in her seaside community. There, Fiona becomes attracted to René, who owns a small sailboat, and has been a deaf-mute since a fire in which his parents died… —IMDb

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Scotch

2Apr12

Cute and strange. Like a less awkward Miranda July film meets a French-Beligian Charlie Chaplin. The film is all style, but I thought it worked, partly because it didn't take itself so seriously. I look forward to The Fairy.

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