A Distant Neighbourhood
– Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wa..
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?
20 May 2010
French
Sam Garbarski
Jirô Taniguchi (manga "Harukanaru machi e"), Philippe Blasband (screenplay), Sam Garbarski (screenplay), Jérôme Tonnerre (screenplay)
Pascal Greggory, Jonathan Zaccaï, Alexandra Maria Lara, Léo Legrand
The film, adapted from the Eisner award nominated manga by Jiro Taniguchi, follows Thomas, a cynical and tired French comic artist who, while visiting his old family home, loses consciousness - only to awaken 40 years in the past in the body of his younger self. While here he faces the choice of changing events at the cost of his own future - and to unravel a lifelong mystery, the reason for his fathers mysterious disappearance that he knows will happen a few months after Thomas's arrival.
1 win & 5 nominations.