Looking for Hortense

Looking for Hortense

When you're looking for someone, you've got to find yourself first.

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Release Date

9/5/2012

Runtime

100 mins

Overview

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...

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

-

Revenue

$3,465,020

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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.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulBittersweet

Themes

FamilyLoveIdentity

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

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