Gabriel's Dream (1997)

Original title

Le rêve de Gabriel

Directed by

Anne Lévy-Morelle

Genre

documentary film

Country

France, Belgium

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A businessman leaves his established life behind in the late 1940s to start over in a remote area of Chilean Patagonia. The film follows his journey and new beginning in that isolated place.

introspectivecontemplativeinspiringquietpoignantreflectivehopefulbiographical

What happens

Gabriel's Dream (French: Le Rêve de Gabriel) is a documentary film directed by Anne Lévy-Morelle. It tells the story of Gabriel de Halleux, an established businessman who, in the late 1940s, decided to leave everything and start a new life in Chile Chico, in the depths of the Chilean Patagonia. In December 1997, Gabriel's Dream received the André Cavens Award for Best Film given by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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