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Bookmark this pageGawin (1991)
Director: Arnaud Selignac
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From Time Out Film Guide
Making ET look like a right hard bastard, Gawin is the winsome space-hopping chum of little Felix, sci-fi crazy and suffering from leukaemia. When Felix's doctor starts to mutter balefully that medicine can do no more, stricken widowed Papa (Anglade) decides it's time for extra-terrestrial forces to take a hand... They seem to have taken a hand in the script as well, since Gawin proceeds with a blithe disregard for plausibility. Clearly conceived as a three Kleenex-box movie, it's guaranteed to leave you dry-eyed, not to say slack-jawed with disbelief. Give or take a couple of flash Beineixian gliding shots in the first minute, it's unmitigated astro-piffle.Author: JRo
Cast & crew
Director: Arnaud Selignac
Producer: Gérard Louvin
Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Wojtek Pszoniak, Catherine Samie, Bruno full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 91 mins
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