Les murs porteurs
  • motion picture
  • 1h 32m

Les murs porteurs

  • 2007
  • Director Cyril Gelblat

FRIDA (Shulamit Adar), an Eastern-European Jewish woman of 75, is losing her memory and mixes past with present times. JUDITH (Miou-Miou), her daughter, has chosen not to work to raise her children. Being divorced and now facing simultaneously her younger son's departure and her mother's ageing, she questions her utility. SIMON (Charles Berling), Frida's son, though accurate in analyzing the society as a journalist, does not grasp his daughter's blossoming nor his mother's ageing. When Frida returns to her former apartment, where she believes she would find her husband, although he passed away some years before, she meets MANOU (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), her landlady, who is waiting for an important promotion. The coming back to this apartment will allow these characters to discover each other and themselves. LES MURS PORTEURS (CYCLES) is a chorus movie about transmission and identity, which portrays a Jewish family of three generations.

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With Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Shulamit Adar, Anaïs Demoustier
Les murs porteurs

Synopsis

FRIDA (Shulamit Adar), an Eastern-European Jewish woman of 75, is losing her memory and mixes past with present times.

JUDITH (Miou-Miou), her daughter, has chosen not to work to raise her children. Being divorced and now facing simultaneously her younger son's departure and her mother's ageing, she questions her utility.

SIMON (Charles Berling), Frida's son, though accurate in analyzing the society as a journalist, does not grasp his daughter's blossoming nor his mother's ageing.

When Frida returns to her former apartment, where she believes she would find her husband, although he passed away some years before, she meets MANOU (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), her landlady, who is waiting for an important promotion.

The coming back to this apartment will allow these characters to discover each other and themselves.

LES MURS PORTEURS (CYCLES) is a chorus movie about transmission and identity, which portrays a Jewish family of three generations.

Details

Start
16.07.2009 German-speaking Switzerland
20.05.2009 French-speaking Switzerland
Duration
1h 32m
Format
35 mm, 1:1,85, Farbe, Dolby SRD
Distribution Switzerland
VEGA Distribution AG, Zurich
Production
Coproduction Delante Films (France)/ Black Forest Films (Germany)/ Vega Film AG (Switzerland)

Credits

Director
Cyril Gelblat
Script
Cyril Gelblat
Producer
Caroline Adrian, Antoine Rein, Ruth Waldburger, Christoph Hanheiser
Cast
Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Shulamit Adar, Anaïs Demoustier
Photography
Jean-Marc Fabre (AFC)
Editing
Emmanuelle Castro, Thomas Marchand, Nathalie Hubert
Sound
Erwan Kerzanet, François Musy, Gabriel Hafner
Music
Ali N. Askin
Art direction
Manu De Chauvigny
Costumes
Esther Walz
Versions
französisch; UT deutsch