Heiners Filmseiten – Twice Upon A Time (en)

Twice Upon A Time (Quand je serai petit)

German title: Quand je serai petit (Wenn ich einmal klein bin)
Spain title: Cuando seré niño
Russian title: Когда я вырасту маленьким
Original title: Quand je serai petit

Tragicomedy – France
Production year: 2011
Movie length: 95 minutes

Director: Jean-Paul Rouve
Writer: Jean-Paul Rouve, Benoit Graffin
Cinematograph: Émilie Simon
Music: Christophe Offenstein

Movie description:

Mathias, aboard a ship with his wife, sees a boy with a striking resemblance to himself and is called – Mathias. He then tracks him to a town north of France to discover that the boy’s parents are exactly like his parents, only to know that his life is payed over again just 30 years post. He then chooses to be the guest in his own life, while he has a life to live at hand.

While traveling, forty-year-old Mathias crosses paths with a child who curiously reminds him of himself at the same age. Deeply perturbed, he sets out on a crazy quest to find the little boy, a quest which risks turning his own life and that of his family upside down ...
If we could live our childhood all over again, would we then change the course of events?

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