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The Sixth Child (2022)

The Sixth Child poster
Original title
Le Sixième Enfant
Directed by
Léopold Legrand
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
TP
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 66 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lawyer and his wife face a difficult choice when a large family offers to give them their sixth child. The story follows the moral and emotional complications that arise from this arrangement.

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What happens

The Sixth Child (French: Le Sixième Enfant) is a 2022 French drama film directed by Léopold Legrand in his feature debut, and co-written by Legrand and Catherine Paillé. The film is loosely based on the 2018 novel Pleurer des rivières by Alain Jaspard. It stars Sara Giraudeau, Benjamin Lavernhe, Damien Bonnard and Judith Chemla. It had its world premiere at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival on 24 August 2022. It was released in France on 28 September 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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