À la campagne (1995)
Directed by Manuel Poirier

Drama
aka: In the Country

Film Synopsis

Benoit lives happily in the country, far from the hubbub of city life which he has grown to hate.  He only ventures to the city to sell the wooden toys he has made, the products of his fertile imagination and nimble fingers.  One day, he meets Lila, who has recently completed a stretch in prison, and cannot help falling in love with her...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Manuel Poirier
  • Script: Manuel Poirier
  • Cinematographer: Nara Keo Kosal
  • Music: Charlélie Couture
  • Cast: Benoît Régent (Benoît), Judith Henry (Lila), Sergi López (Pablo), Jean-Jacques Vanier (Gaston), Serge Riaboukine (Emile), Elisabeth Commelin (Mylène), Laure Duthilleul (Françoise), Élisabeth Vitali (Cathy), Céline Poirier (Céline), M. Vanheule (Céline's father), Diane Valsonne (Florence), Véronique Delestaing (Nadine), Dorine Hollier (Sandra), Vanille Attié, Pierre Banderet, Olivier Broche, Benjamin Delamare, Richard Delange, Philippe Duquesne, Frédéric Galeppe
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 108 min
  • Aka: In the Country ; Out in the Country

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