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Monsieur

OT: Monsieur

Jean-Philippe Toussaint // Belgium, France, 1989
Fiction Feature // FF2007

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Story

A master of words, Jean-Philippe Toussaint won the Junior Scrabble World Championship in 1973. 12 years later, he wrote Monsieur, a novel about someone nameless who would be lost for words at having to explain why he and his fiancée had broken up. He had not followed events all too closely, but remembered only that the number of complaints held against him seemed quite considerable. In 1990 Toussaint made a film of his story. Bizarre, absurd, socio-critical.

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Monsieur

Fiction Feature

French

Belgien Deluxe//FF2007


Belgium, France

1989

89 min

OV

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Dominique Gould, Wotjek Pszoniak, Eva Ionesco

Anne-Dominique Toussaint

Jean-François Robin

Sylvie Pontoizeau, Sylvie Adnin

Oliver Lartigue

Wim Vermeylen

Les Films des Tournelles; Les Films de l'Etang; La Sept-Cinéma

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