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Bernard Bellefroid | Belgium | 2014 | 90 min | French, English
Director Bernard Bellefroid’s first feature, The Boat Race (2009), and his documentaries both fall into place in this sensitive drama, in which he follows the journeys of a woman wanting a baby and a surrogate mother.
To earn the money to start her own hairdressing business, 28-year-old homeless woman Melody agrees to be a surrogate mother for Emily, a rich English businesswoman aged 48. To keep an eye on Melody (and her unborn child), Emily decides that the surrogate mother should live with her during her pregnancy in her big house on the English coast. In spite of mistrust, doubts and fears, a bond develops between the women. In Emily, Melody finds the mother she never had, and in turn Emily begins to see Melody as the daughter she always wanted.
Bellefroid takes a humane look at a highly charged subject, intuitively played out by Rachael Blake and Lucie Debay, who were jointly awarded best actress at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Place: The Cinemas 1
Date: 27 March 2015
Time: 21:15
Duration: 1:45
Place: The Cinemas 3
Date: 28 March 2015
Time: 19:15
Duration: 1:45
Place: The Cinemas 4
Date: 29 March 2015
Time: 10:45
Duration: 1:45
Year in
Festival
2015
Director
Bernard Bellefroid
Camera
David Williamson
Cast
Rachael Blake
Lucie Debay
Don Gallagher
Laure Roldan
Clive Hayward
Lana Macanovic
Julie Maes
Country
Belgium
Editor
Jean-Luc Simon
Language
French
English
Length
90 min
Music
Frédéric Vercheval
Producer
Patrick Quinet
Production Company
Artémis Productions
Production Design
Régine Constant
Sales
Scenario
Sound Design
Carine Zimmerlin
Year of Production
2014
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