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Poster for The Children

The Children

2005 · 88 min

A gentle, talky French comedy-drama about grown-up romance and the awkward business of blending families, easy and warm to watch.

Overview
Pierre Esteban is a middle-aged technology teacher, divorced from Hélène, who has two children. Jeanne Lancry is a lively estate agent in the same situation : a divorcée with two children. They discover they love visiting empty apartments together and...more than just that! Life would be just wonderful if they were fifteen years earlier. But there are the children. It would be fine to live altogether in the same place. The question is : will the kids get on well with each other?

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • family
  • parenthood
  • identity
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Christian Vincent
Written by
Christian Vincent
Starring
Karin Viard, Gérard Lanvin, Brieuc Quiniou, Nicolas Jouxtel, Phareelle Onoyan, Martin Combes, Nathalie Richard, Anne Rousselet
Music
Thomas Dutronc
Cinematography
Hélène Louvart
Runtime
88 min
Languages
French

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