
Looking for Hortense
When you're looking for someone, you've got to find yourself first.
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9/5/2012Runtime
100 minsOverview
Damien is a professor of Chinese civilization who lives with his wife, Iva, a theater director, and their son Noé. Their love is mired in a mountain of routine and disenchantment. To help keep Zorica from getting deported, Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll go to his father, a state department official, for help. But Damien and his father have a distant and cool relationship. And this mission is a risky business which will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge...
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FrenchBudget
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$3,465,020Homepage
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A wry, quietly unsettling portrait of a marriage calcifying under routine and the small compromises that unravel it. The film follows a man's spiral as he becomes caught between his wife's moral imperative and his own emotional paralysis.
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