Quand je serai petit (2012)
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Cast
Jean-Paul Rouve, Benoît Poelvoorde, Arly Jover, Lisa Martino, Miou-Miou, Claude Brasseur, Xavier Beauvois, Gilles Lellouche, Miljan Chatelain, Lolita Offenstein, Rémy Gillodts
A forty-year-old man spots a boy who looks like his childhood self and sets out to change the mistakes of the past.
The story
Mathias, a forty-year-old landscape gardener, is on a cruise with his wife when he notices a child who looks just like he did at ten. Intrigued, he searches for the boy and discovers that they share not only a name, but parents with the same names as his own. The child’s family appears to mirror Mathias’s family from thirty years earlier. Confronted with this uncanny resemblance and believing he knows what the boy will face, Mathias becomes determined to intervene and correct the mistakes made by his younger self and his parents.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Mathias is a forty-year-old landscape gardener. While on a cruise with his wife, he spots a child who looks like him when he was ten. Intrigued, he tries to find the child and discovers that the boy has the same name as he does, that his parents have the same names as his own, and that this family is exactly like his own thirty years earlier. Knowing what lies ahead for the child, the adult Mathias tries to correct the mistakes made during his childhood by his parents and by himself.
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