Our Children (2012) ( À perdre la raison ) ( Loving Without Reason )

Our Children (2012) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$38.99

Original Title: À perdre la raison
Alternate Title: Loving Without Reason
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
111 min + 66 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Luxembourg ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Joachim Lafosse

Written By:
Thomas Bidegain
Joachim Lafosse

Actors:
Niels Arestrup ..... Le docteur André Pinget
Tahar Rahim ..... Mounir
Émilie Dequenne ..... Murielle
Stéphane Bissot ..... Françoise
Mounia Raoui ..... Fatima Pinget
Redouane Behache ..... Samir
Baya Belal ..... Rachida
Nathalie Boutefeu ..... Le docteur De Clerck
Yannick Renier ..... Le médecin radiologue
Claire Bodson ..... La femme policier à l'hôpital
Jean-Charles Hautera ..... Le professeur Maryns
Daniel Feis ..... Le pianiste
Joé Michels ..... Jade (nouveau-né)
Eléa Gillard ..... Jade (3 mois)
Charlie Hoscheck ..... Jade (3 mois)

Synopsis:

How does it happen that a vibrant, capable young woman loses her sense of self-worth and ends up destroying what she most loves? Belgian director Joachim Lafosse structures an all too familiar contemporary story that was headline news in Europe as a classical tragedy. Émilie Dequenne more than fulfills the promise of her award-winning performance in the Dardenne brothers' Rosetta with this portrait of a young school teacher who marries a Moroccan immigrant (Tahar Rahim) and has four children with him, while gradually becoming aware of how much he is in thrall to his mentor, a domineering doctor (Niels Arestrup). Rahim and Arestrup reprise their father/son relationship from Jacques Audiard's A Prophet but with an even more corrupt twist. Lafosse's direction of this perverse narrative of patriarchal power and female oppression is like steel wrapped in silk.

Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle fall in love. Like millions of other couples, Mounir and Murielle have children. But unlike them, they accept to give up their autonomy by agreeing to live with Mounir's well off adoptive father, Doctor André Pinget. On the material level, all is well. But a house is not a home, and Murielle feels more and more stifled...

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 13 April, 2013.

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