71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Huit fois debout

Xabi Molia
France
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Elsa scrapes through to the end of each month by doing odd jobs. At night, she cleans buses in a deserted coach station, during the day she looks after a child for a young couple. Hoping to land a job with a contract, she attends interviews with disastrous results. Her neighbour Mathieu is also looking for work and seems to have achieved perfection in the art of failing interviews. One day, Elsa is evicted from her flat. She finds herself faced with a life of uncertainty with only a potted plant for company. Mathieu occasionally makes her offers of love that she?s not ready to accept. The temptation to leave it all behind leads Elsa to a forest in which Mathieu has already found refuge and set up camp.
Director
Xabi Molia
Screenplay
Xabi Molia
Photography
Martin De Chabaneix
Edition
Sébastien Sarraillé
Music
Hey Hey My My
Cast
Julie Gayet, Denis Podalydès, Mathieu Busson, Kevyn Frachon
Running Time
102 m.
Country
France
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