On Your Head

Oct 19, 2001

1h 44m

★ 4.1

Overview

Nothing gets by Simone, even though she's blind. An adorable, incredibly precocious ten-year-old girl, Simone sets herself the task of coping with (and sometimes manipulating) the many offbeat charact... read more ers that surround her- including her broken-hearted father, an aging anarchist beekeeper, a beloved and asthmatic quasi-mother-in-law, a priest in the midst of a crisis of faith, and a biker with a wandering heart, for whom she has unconditional love. And then, of course, there's the village in which she lives, where everyone knows your business and makes it their own. No wonder Simone feels that she lives her life like a reel of film jumping in the sprockets of a projector. Life is strange and complicated enough, and then an aviator falls from the sky, threatening everything Simone loves the most.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Be-FILMS

CBC

Productions Thalie

SODEC

Téléfilm Canada

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Cast

Céline Bonnier

David Boutin

'La belle Hélène'

Nathalie Breuer

Serge Dupire

Daniel Fanego

Abbot Florent

Maka Kotto

Arianne Maheu

Gaby

Marc Messier

Rosa Zacharie

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