Just a few weeks before elections, the outgoing President of Republic, Jean François Vanier (Patrick Braoudé), is at the lowest in the polls, leader of the most powerful right wing party he is trying to find a mainstay.
Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for the first 18 months of its life, after which time the child must be given up and placed into state care. Ombline has no intention of surrendering her beloved little boy and is prepared to do anything to convince the authorities that she is capable of rearing the child after she has left prison. As her maternal instincts assert themselves, the young woman finds she has a cause worth fighting for, and an opportunity to rebuild her shattered life…
El guión, escrito por el director y Vanessa Portal, adapta una novela de Eliette Abeccassis, protagonizada por una pareja que vive como si fueran solteros sin hijos. La llegada de un bebé cambia drásticamente su vida cotidiana convirtiéndola en un verdadero calvario. Film que “habla con humor y ternura de la felicidad, y también de las dificultades de ser padres jóvenes”
Marieke quiere vivir su vida. Pero, ¿cómo hacerlo si le han quitado el amor? Busca calor en brazos de hombres mayores hasta reunir fuerzas para hacer frente al pasado y finalmente poder ser ella misma.
A mediados de los años 1970, Ghislain Lambert es un ciclista belga nacido el mismo día que Eddy Merckx, cuya ambición es convertirse en campeón. Se entrena fuertemente como aficionado y logra enrolarse en un equipo ciclista, pero como gregario y aguador del jefe de filas. Decidido en su sueño de victoria y gloria deportiva, Ghislain Lambert espera pacientemente su turno.
This is a film which was made in Belgium in the early '60s and was never released. However, it somehow got included in the American Oscar category for "Best Foreign Film," and was finally released in its home country in 1971. It explores the issues of prejudice and superstition in the Belgian countryside through the troubles of a middle-aged farmer whose mother has been accused of being a witch. In French, this picture is based on a true story which took place in the late 1920s and early '30s.
