Le Nez au vent (1997)
Directed by Dominique Guerrier

Drama

Film Synopsis

Raphaël commits suicide at the age of seventy.  On the other side of the mirror, in the realm of the dead, he is reunited with the wife who left him thirty years previously.  Alas, he is not permitted to stay here because he killed himself.  Raphaël comes to his senses and finds himself lying on a bed in hospital.  He intends to take advantage of the extra life he has been granted but his son Pierre has moved into his home after breaking up with his wife.  Keen to find out more about his parents, Pierre questions his father, and the memories come flooding back...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Dominique Guerrier
  • Script: Jean-Louis Benoît, Dominique Guerrier
  • Cinematographer: Jan Vancaillie
  • Music: Serge Franklin
  • Cast: Yves Robert (Paphaël), Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu (Clémentine), Olivier Ythier (Jean-Pierre), Sabrina Leurquin (Rosine), Jean-Marc Roulot (Raphaël jeune), Cathy Boquet, Tristan Clarys, Philippe Cochin, Florence Crick, Myriam David, Didier De Neck, Yves Degen, Patrick Duquesne, Karl Galler, Bernard Graczyk, Yvonne Gradelet, Cécile Hanquenne, Ingrid Herman, Nicolas Holzer, Baptiste Hupin
  • Country: Belgium
  • Language: Dutch
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 90 min

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