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Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994)

Coming to Terms with the Dead poster
Original title
Petits arrangements avec les morts
Directed by
Pascale Ferran
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 44m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his childhood home in Brittany after his mother's death. Through flashbacks and conversations with his sister and a local woman, he revisits memories of his younger brother and the summer that changed their lives.

contemplativemelancholicrestrainedintimateslow-burnpoignantsubtleatmospheric

What happens

Coming to Terms with the Dead (French: Petits arrangements avec les morts) is a 1994 French drama film directed by Pascale Ferran. It won the Caméra d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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