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PARABOLA
First Feature Film
year 2005 lenght 105' color 35mm country Belgium
directed by Karim Ouelhaj
Screenplay Karim Ouelhaj, Daniel Donkers
Cast Céline Rallet (Sara), Julie Burg (Héléna), Aude Lorquet (Axelle), Mario Guzman (Zacharie), Daniel Voisin (David)
Cinematography Karim Ouelhaj
Editing Karim Ouelhaj
Music Jimmipace, Cyprien Menedez, Karim Ouelhaj
Producers Ben Lee Lucas, Daniel Donkers, Laurent Tixon
Production
Okayss Films
Co-production
Les Films de la Passerelle
World Sales
Le Films de la Passerelle
62 rue de Renory 4031 Liège (Belgium)
Tel: +32 43 42 36 02 Fax: +32 43 43 07 20
www.passerelle.be
synopsis
The film opens with a dramatic scene which results from the crossing of several destinies
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First of all, there is Sarah. She is a prostitute, not by obligation, not by choice, but because it is an easy way to earn money quickly.
Then there is Zacharie, Sarah’s ex-boyfriend, who remains like a shadow in her life.
Then, there are two women that Sarah will meet by accident: a childhood friend, Axelle, and a young pregnant woman, Elena abandoned by her husband without any reasonable explanation.
Very quickly, the three women will share a very intense friendship, but the world around them will catch up with them. While entering each other’s lives, all of them will bring about changes and turn their existences upside down.
“I do it for the money” Sarah “but my body is dead”. “The only strength I’ve got over my clients is that they think I belong to them when actually nobody has ever possessed me. ”This is Belgium director Karim Ouelhaj’s first film and what a film. He shows no compromise, no desire to alleviate the rough reality he aims to depict. There is urgency in the way he films these three girls and their chaotic life, and tenderness too. Music accompanies the three girls’ friendship and hardship with great delicacy.
(Agnès Catherine Poirier)
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