Short film
The Unshod Man
2002 · 33 min
A quiet, music-soaked meditation on loss and obligation, drifting through grief with a gentle, melancholic hand.
- Directed by
- Laurence Attali
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Cheikh Lô, Maylis Guiard-Schmid, Oumou Sy
- Overview
- Everything started at the lighthouse bar, during Booz's concert. Ben, the trumpet player, dies onstage. The next day, his wife Esther places Ben's trumpet on his grave and taking Booz's hand, she says: Now you must take care of me.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, death, love, isolation
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Laurence Attali
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Cheikh Lô, Maylis Guiard-Schmid, Oumou Sy