A Distant Neighborhood

A Distant Neighborhood

2010 · 98 min · FR · 7.3 (43 votes)
Dir. Sam Garbarski · Starring Léo Legrand, Pascal Greggory, Jonathan Zaccaï, Alexandra Maria Lara, Evelyne Didi, Sophie Duez
Drama

Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?

VIBE

A profound, dreamlike exploration of memory and regret. It feels like sifting through old photographs, a quiet ache of what was and what could have been. The past is a foreign country, revisited with a haunting, melancholic gaze.

melancholicnostalgiccontemplativesurrealslow-burnarthouse dramamagical realismcharacter studyidentityregretfamilysecond chances
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