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Komma

Koma

Belgium / France | 2006, 101 min.

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Festival edition: 2006

Section: New Films, New Directors - International Competition

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Peter de Wit, 50, wakes up in the middle of the night and realizes with terror that he is in a hospital mortuary. How did he get there? He doesn’t remember and doesn’t want to. Under the identity of the corpse he steals a wallet from, Peter decides to invent a new life for himself. We see his mature figure wandering in the city, slipping - with more or less brio - into the skin of a character he improvises depending on the situation: Lars Erickson, an enigmatic Swedish businessman passing through Brussels. One night, he runs into Lucie, a young and neurotic artist who seems to have lost her memory. Without noticing it, through a communicating vessels effect, Peter’s mythomania fills in Lucie’s amnesia, and Peter gives himself an important part in Lucie’s life.

Director(-s): Martine Doyen

Born in 1961. In the nineties, she wrote and shot about fifteen 10-minutes portraits of artists, as well as a television series including 70 short burlesque stories (Expressions) for the RTBF. She later works for Canal+ Belgique as a filmmaker. She made four shorts. "Komma" is her first feature.

Director's filmography

2006 Komma
2001 Pâques au tison (kr.m.)
1998 Noël au balcon (kr.m.)
1995 L'Insoupçonnable univers de Josiane (kr.m.)
1994 Herman le gangster (kr.m.)

Cast & Crew

Producer: Isabelle Filleul de Brohy, Jean-Luc Ormieres

Cast: Arno, Olga Grumberg, Valérie Lemaître, Jill Wertz (Eva)

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