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PETITS FILS
GRAND SONS |
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Director:
Ilan Duran Cohen
Screenplay:
Ilan Duran Cohen
Cast:
Mamie Régine: Reine Ferrato
Guillaume: Guillaume Quatravaux
Maxime: Jean-Philippe Sêt
Serge: Brice Cauvin
Awards:
Horizons Award, Venice International Film Festival (2004)
Running time: 64’
Production: France, 2004
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: DVD (color)
Distributor:
Strand Releasing
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“‘Grand
Sons’ is a film of small pleasures, many of which
are found in the performances of Ferrato and Quatravaux,
who are utterly natural and seem to improvise off each
other effortlessly. You really feel like you’re
spying on their most private moments in that claustrophobic
apartment.”
Don Willmott, Filmcritic.com |
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Guillaume
often goes to Paris to visit his grandmother Régine
who raised him. He has a hard time dealing with his mother’s
death which occurred two years ago. Although he loves his
grandmother, he is often frustrated by her. She is patient
with him, accepting him as he is. She is also comfortable
with his homosexuality and does not mind that he is seeing
an older man. Nevertheless, she worries about him and expresses
her concern to her late daughter (his mother), whose ashes
rest on the balcony. When Régine hires a housekeeper,
Maxime, to help her, Guillaume is suspicious at first and
then jealous of this young man who has gained his grandmother’s
trust. Although Maxime tries not to get involved, he nonetheless
helps Guillaume deal with his mother’s death and reunites
him with his grandmother. Filmed entirely in the grandmother’s
apartment, the viewer is drawn into the intimate life of the
protagonists and cannot help but be affected by the film’s
emotional honesty, integrity, and humor.
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