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Bookmark this pageFils de Deux Mères ou Comédie de l'Innocence (2000)
Director: Raul Ruiz
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From Time Out Film Guide
After his inspired Time Regained, Ruiz returns with this brittle, rather drab-looking Buñuelian 'comedy' (from a novel by Massimo Bontempelli) about a nine-year-old boy, Camille (Hugon), who announces to his bewildered mother (Huppert) that his name is Paul and he'd like to go home, now, please. He takes her to an apartment on the other side of Paris, claims to recognise 'his' room, and what's more, the woman who lives there (Balibar) seems to recognise him as the child she lost two years before. Ruiz presents this surreal conceit with matter-of-fact dispassion (and suspense chords on the soundtrack), even as the boy's family go to pieces.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Raul Ruiz
Producer: Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Charles Berling, Nils Hugon, Edith Scob, Denis Podalydès full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 103 mins
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