L'imitateur (1982)
- Directed by
- Jaco Van Dormael
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Belgium
- Runtime
- 29 min
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A documentary short about two mentally disabled people who briefly enter the world of so-called normal people.
observationalpoignantlow-keygentleintimaterealisticunderstatedquirky
What happens
L'imitateur is a 1982 Belgian documentary short film written and directed by Jaco Van Dormael. The short film was shot in 1982 in Belgium. L'imitateur tells the story of two mentally disabled which do a brief intrusion into the world of "normal people". The film was awarded the Best Documentary and Best Short Film at the 1983 Brussels Film Festival. In 2011, it appeared at the Sottodiciotto Filmfestival held in Turin in the retrospective dedicated to Van Dormael. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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