Synopsis:
How can the flames of desire be rekindled after 25 years of married life? An erotic comedy, made entirely through the use of modelling clay, delves into the private lives of Alice and Henry, a couple in their fifties numbed by routine.
- Director:
- Izabela Plucińska
- Year:
- 2015
- Country:
- Canada
- Running time:
- 12 min.
- Technique:
- Claymation
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producer:
- Izabela Plucinska
- Animator:
- Izabela Plucińska
- Script writers:
- Izabela Plucińska, Michele Riml
- Music composers:
- Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Denis Chartrand
- Sound designers:
- Normand Roger, Pierre Yves Drapeau, Denis Chartrand
- Editors:
- Dirk Schreier, Rudi Zieglmeier
- Production:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- StopTrik International Film Festival
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