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Coup de sang

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Original title

Coup de sang

Year

2006

Running time

84 min.

Country

France

Director

Jean Marboeuf

Screenwriter

Jean Marboeuf

Cast

Music

Ursus Minot

Cinematography

Baptiste Magnien

Producer

Les Films du Chantier, CNC

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

A widower's grief leads him down the road to madness in this drama from French filmmaker Jean Marboeuf. Pierre Valois (Pierre Arditi) is an elderly man who is still emotionally reeling from the death of his wife (Marie-Christine Barrault), and he visits her grave nearly every day, even though he hears her voice urging him to get on with his life. Pierre struggles to do just that -- he spends time with his friends, he helps a neighbor's child with their homework, he flirts with a woman working at a nearby flower shop -- but a seething bitterness over his lonely life begins to fester inside of him. Pierre buys a gun and learns how to use it, and over the course of five days his kind and gentle façade begins to collapse. Coup de Sang (aka Headrush) was shot primarily from "first-person" camera angles, which show Pierre's perspective on the world around him.

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Coup de sang

2006

Jean Marboeuf