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Closet Children

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Original title

Les enfants du placard

Year

1977

Running time

105 min.

Country

France

Director

Benoît Jacquot

Screenwriter

Benoît Jacquot

Cast

Cinematography

Pierre Lhomme

Producer

G.M.F. Productions

Genre

Drama | Family Relationships

Synopsis

Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his mentally unstable mother and protecting her from herself. One day, he and his sister Juliette (Brigitte Fossey) went instead into a large closet and enacted a childishly intensive "I dare you" bonding ritual, marking one another with the blade of their father's sword cane. While he was occupied in this manner, the boy's mother hung herself and died. Now an adult, he still has an unhealthily strong fixation on his sister.

Awards: 1977: Cesar Awards (France): nominated to Best Actress (Meilleure actrice).

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Closet Children

1977

Benoît Jacquot