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Belleville Baby (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
73 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Mia Engberg

Written By:
Mia Engberg

Actors:
Olivier Desautel ..... Vincen

Synopsis:

As a film student, Mia Engberg lived in the Parisian district of Belleville. Today, this wild episode of her life is far behind her. She is now a mother with a young daughter and lives in Sweden. One day, a voice from the past bursts into her life. It is Vincent, the love of her life, who suddenly abandoned her years ago. Calling from Paris, he asks her to recount memories of their time together: after eight years in prison he is seeking to reconstruct his earlier life and the memories that now escape him. But Mia is reluctant to dig up the past. In long telephone conversations and films shot using his mobile phone, Vincent takes stock of his life and tells the story of the poor boy from the banlieue who slid inexorably into crime. Meanwhile, Engberg goes through her filmed diaries and recalls a love affair which at the time defied convention - for, in the eyes of society, the film student and the lawbreaker were not exactly the perfect match. Weaving together old and new footage, the director creates a documentary essay which explores long-buried memories, our fascination with the 'other', and how love can transcend all class divisions.

Examining her memories of a torrid and dangerous affair with a charismatic drug dealer she met in Paris during her rebellious youth, Swedish helmer Mia Engberg uses creative docu 'Belleville Baby' to explore the subjective nature of memory, question identity and class, and illustrate the impossibility of saving someone you love by love alone. Mixing a variety of visual and aural materials, this lyrical, experimental, semi-fictionalized mood piece is a specialty item that will appeal most strongly to fests and the cinematheque circuit.

A long distance call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past. She remembers the spring when they met in Paris, the riots, the vespa and the cat named Baby. A film about love, time and things that got lost along the way.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 11 April, 2014.

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