Country: Belgium
Year: 2008
Duration: 95'
Lisa, fourteen years old, disappeared with no clear reason. Her parents, “When something terrible happens to you, there is always a certain
Lukas and Grace, five years from her disappearance hold out little hope
of ever seeing her again and their lack of communication spares them
from confronting the pain in their past and present. But then, through
some strange coincidences, Lisa seems to reappear in their lives. Grace
doesn’t tell Lukas about the girl she sometimes sees in the subway and
Lukas doesn’t say a word about the strange telephone calls he gets,
but whether they want it or not, Lisa has crawled back in their heads.
length of time during which everyone appreciates your situation and
shows concern. But after a while, there invariably comes a time when
people expect you to be over it in some way or another, and to pull
up your socks and carry on with your ordinary life. It is this last period
I want to focus on. Because, to me, that is where the most subtle
and interesting emotions and stories are to be found. I wanted to tell
a human drama in all its complexity.”
Biography
film director
Fien Troch
Fien Troch (Londerzeel, Belgium, 1978) attended the Film University Sint Lukas in Brussels, from which she graduated in September 2000. She’s now a professor at the same university. Beside her work in film, she enjoyed a career as a commercial director. She has also directed theatre and in 1999 appeared as an actress alongside Isabelle Huppert in The King’s Daughters, directed by Patricia Mazuy. He directed four short films between 1998 and 2001, among them Verbrande Aarde that won the Jury Prize at Brussels International Film Festival. She released her first feature film in 2005, Someone Else’s Happiness, selected for Toronto and San Sebastian International Film Festivals and awarded at the Thessaloniki, Angers, Salerno and Taipei International Film Festivals.
FILMOGRAFIA
Verbrande Aarde (cm, 1998), Wooww (cm, 1999), Maria (cm, 2000), Cool Sam and Sweet Suzie (cm, 2001), En ander zijn geluk (Someone Else’s Happiness, 2005), Non-dit (Unspoken, 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Fien Troch
fotografia/cinematography Frank Van den Eeden
montaggio/film editing Ludo Troch
scenografia/production design François Lefebvre
costumi/costume design Elise Ancion
musica/music Peter Van Laerhoven
suono/sound Frank Struys
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Bruno Todeschini (Lukas), Emmanuelle Devos (Grace), Lola Bonfanti (la ragazza/Girl),
Laura Van Geyt (Corinne), Nade Dieu (Julie), Lola Rausin (Lisa), Joffrey Verbruggen
(Benjamin), Jean Marc Delhausse (Bruno)
produttore/producer Antonino Lombardo
produzione/production Prime Time
coproduttori/coproducers Jeroen Beker, Frans van Gestel, Jacques-Henri Bronckart
coproduzione/coproduction Versus Production, Motel Films, Ryva
vendita all’estero/world sales The Works International
TFF
prizes
