Screenplay :
Guillaume Laurant, based on the novel by Anne Wyazemsky
Director of Photography:
Stéphane Fontaine AFG Music:
Philippe Sarde
Cast :
Alba-Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi: Betty
Stéphane Freiss: Régis
Yolande Moreau: Rose
Maria de Medeiros: Mado
Benjamin Ramon: Yvon
Lauriane Sire: Agnès
Olivier Cruveiller: Teacher
Virgile Leclaire: Quentin
Running time: 1h 30 min Production: France, 2006 Rating: Not Rated (PG)
Distributor: Pyramide International ›› www.pyramidefilms.com
Je m’appelle Elisabeth |
Call Me Elisabeth
FAMILY FILM Introduction by Elise Lemire, Professor of Literature at Purchase College Q&A with Elise Lemire
Family film
Ten year-old Betty is afraid of ghosts and dark corners. When her sister Agnès leaves to go to high school, Betty is left by herself, between her parents, Régis and Mado in the middle of a marriage crisis, and Rose, the almost dumb maid. That’s when Yvon steps over the wall between the garden of the family house and the asylum that Régis manages. Moved by his frailty, Betty hides Yvon for several days inside the cottage where the bicycles are stored. Betty tells him her fears and joys and slowly Yvon becomes her best friend and confident, even though Yvon does not speak much. However, little by little, they grow closer...