Childhoods (film)
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| Childhoods | |
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Arte France Papaye | |
| Distributed by | Zelig Films Distribution |
Release dates |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Languages | French English |
| Box office | $140,148[1] |
Childhoods (original title: Enfances) is a 2007 French
Written by Yann Le Gal, the director of the Fritz Lang segment, the project was realized during 2006–07 and premiered in
Segments
The film's opening vignette, a namesake of the future director's 1948 film,
The second segment, "The Gaze of a Child", directed by Isild Le Besco, moves to 1924 Chicago in depicting a deeply traumatic moment in the young life of Orson Welles (1915–1985), whose beloved mother dies four days after his ninth birthday.
The third story, "Open the Door, Please", directed by
Part four, "The Pair of Shoes", directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, also set in France, but fourteen years earlier, in 1905, shows Jean Renoir (1894–1979), age 11, vacationing, as usual, at the country estate of his father, renowned painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, when an encounter with a slightly older peasant boy opens his eyes to the hidden meanings of life in the country and also teaches him about the unfairness of social class divisions.
Story number five, "Short Night", directed by Corinne Garfin and set in 1907, selects a moment in the life of 8-year-old Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), a sensitive child with an unsympathetic and authoritarian mother, who, awakening in the middle of a dark and terrifying night in the London suburb of Leytonstone, calls out in fright, with no one to answer his cries.
The final tale, "A Birth", directed by Safy Nebbou, takes place in the Swedish city of Uppsala, giving a portrait of Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007), age 4, traumatized and unsettled while awaiting the 1922 birth of his sister.
Cast
- Maurice Antoni as Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Maxime Juravliov as Jacques Tati
- Virgil Leclaire as Fritz Lang
- Max Renaudin Pratt as Ingmar Bergman
- Elsa Zylberstein as Ingmar Bergman's mother
- Pascal Elso as Ingmar Bergman's father
- Anne Benoît as Aline Renoir
- Julie Gayet as Fritz Lang's mother
- Isild Le Besco as Orson Welles's aunt
- Emmanuelle Bercot as Orson Welles's mother
- Vincent Solignac as Alfred Hitchcock's father
- Margot Meynard as Alfred Hitchcock's mother
- Clotilde Hesme as Gabrielle
- Jonathan Joss as Dolph Lang
Further reading
- McNally, James. "Enfances (Childhoods)". Toronto Screen Shots (28 March 2009) Review of film screening at Toronto CineFranco Film Festival (with poster and link to trailer)
- Tootpadu. "Enfances". Review of 7 May 2008 screening in France at Club Marbeuf Archived 19 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine [in French]
References
External links
- Childhoods at IMDb
