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Maddened by his Absence (J’enrage de son absence)

German title: J’enrage de son absence (Seine Abwesenheit macht mich verrückt)
Greek title: Μ’ εξοργίζει η απουσία του
Russian title: Меня терзает его отсутствие
Original title: J’enrage de son absence

Family drama – France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Production year: 2011
Movie length: 98 minutes

Director: Sandrine Bonnaire
Writer: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jérôme Tonnerre
Cinematograph: Philippe Guilbert
Music: André Dziezuk

Movie description:

Touched to the depths of his being by the death of his child in a car accident ten years earlier, Jacques has lost his bearings. For this loss is all the more difficult to stand as Jacques was driving the car in which his son was killed. His relationship did not survive the tragedy and Jacques left, traveling far from the place where his and his wife’s happiness was shattered. Now Jacques is back in France for the funeral of his father. In the meantime his wife has started a new life and has a new child.

After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime, built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 year old son, Paul. Upon his return, Jacques and Mado meet again; he asks to meet her son Paul; Mado hesitates, then accepts but hides it from her husband. Soon, Paul and Jacques get close and they start to see each other secretly ...

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