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Avanti (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Teaser(s)
Trailer(s)

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

Directed By:
Emmanuelle Antille

Written By:
Emmanuelle Antille

Actors:
Hanna Schygulla ..... Suzanne
Nina Meurisse ..... Léa
Miou-Miou ..... Catherine
Jean-Pierre Gos ..... François
Monique Mélinand ..... Anita
Christophe Dimitri Réveille ..... Max
Frank Arnaudon ..... Le vendeur de la station service
Raphael Baunaquis ..... Le client
Liliana Cabral ..... Cliente du bar
Joss Capra ..... Biker
Baptiste Coustenoble ..... Mec au bar
Virginie Lièvre ..... Cliente du bar
Marc Mayoraz ..... Mec au bar
Hervé Sorrenti ..... Barman
Olivier Yglesias ..... Le gérant du magasin

Synopsis:

What does 'normal' actually mean? And what is 'crazy'? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is mentally ill. Her father wants to see her returned to the psychiatric clinic, but Léa refuses to see her mother in the same light: Suzanne is happy - even if she doesn't act like others expect her to. She appears to live a joyfully infantile existence after calmly letting go of life's pressures. Léa captures her mother's life on film and focuses her attention on examining the old super-8 films from the family archives. When she is left to drive her mother back to the clinic after a weekend at home, Léa grabs her opportunity: She turns the car around and whisks Suzanne off on a journey; a road trip without the judgements of others. AVANTI follows a mother-daughter relationship with an ease and depth that highlights the complexity of the emotional ties within a family.

Estranged from her family, her job and her friend, Léa, aged 28, decides to get away from it all with her mentally ill mother, Suzanne. Travelling in close companionship, mother and daughter try for the first time to understand each other.

A young woman (Nina Meurisse) embarks on a road trip with her mentally ill mother (Hanna Schygulla).

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 22 May, 2017.

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