Movie: The Whimsical Council

Top 4 Billed Cast

Bénédicte Chabot
Bénédicte Chabot

La femme cygne (Voix)

Arthur H.
Arthur H

Le poète (Voix)

Franck Monnet
Franck Monnet

Le réverbère (Voix)

Alain Duclos
Alain Duclos

Hamlet (Voix)

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    A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice. He closes the window to escape this vision and hears from deep inside his soul the sound of a poem being sung.

  • Release Date

    2010-06-03

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    7

  • Rating:

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    Français
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