The Whimsical Council

Jun 3, 2010

0h 12m

★ 7.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Animation

Production Companies

Les Films du Nord

Digit Anima

La Boîte, ... Productions

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Cast

La femme cygne (Voix)

Bénédicte Chabot

Le poète (Voix)

Arthur H.

Le réverbère (Voix)

Franck Monnet

Hamlet (Voix)

Alain Duclos

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7.7

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3.7

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6.7

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6.4

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7.6

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Dec 1, 1973

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7.5

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7.0

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6.7

Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days

Jun 4, 2019

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6.8

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Dec 3, 1986

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6.2

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7.3

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7.0

Un

Jan 1, 1974

No overview available.

6.5

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6.1

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7.9

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7.9

La Maison en Petits Cubes

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