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A Life Begins (2010)

A Life Begins poster
Original title
Une vie qui commence
Directed by
Michel Monty
Genre
comedy, drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
G
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family copes with a mother's terminal illness. Her teenage son struggles to connect with his grieving father and confronts his own coming of age.

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What happens

A Life Begins (French: Une vie qui commence) is a 2010 Canadian French language drama film, directed and written by Michel Monty, his debut long feature. The film's original working title was Cent milliards de neurones ("One Hundred Billion Neurons"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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