Childhoods (2007)

Original title

Enfances

Directed by

Yann Le Gal, Corinne Garfin, Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 20m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This French anthology film presents six short segments, each directed by a different filmmaker. Each segment recreates a formative childhood moment from the life of a famous movie director like Fritz Lang or Alfred Hitchcock. The segments are designed to mimic the visual and storytelling style of the director they portray.

reflectiveepisodiccontemplativeaffectionatestylizedintimatenostalgicuneven

What happens

Childhoods (original title: Enfances) is a 2007 French anthology film directed by Yann Le Gal, Isild Le Besco, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Ismaël Ferroukhi, Corinne Garfin and Safy Nebbou. Although a French reference gives its running time as 84 minutes, other resources indicate 80 minutes, with the work, in its entirety, composed of six vignettes, between 10 and 15 minutes in length, each by a different director, depicting formative incidents in the pre-adolescent lives of iconic filmmakers Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Jean Renoir, Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman, with each segment structured to resemble its subject's familiar signature style. Written by Yann Le Gal, the director of the Fritz Lang segment, the project was realized during 2006–07 and premiered in Germany at the Hamburg Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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