La Position de l'escargot - Michka Saäl
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La Position de l'escargot
A film by Michka Saäl
A Canada-France coproduction (1998) - 100 min. - 35 mm - colour.

Written by : Michka Saäl
Produced by : Jeannine Gagné
Photography : Arthur E. Cooper
Editing : Natacha Dufaux
Sound : Pierre Blain, Claude Beaugrand
Music : Jean Derome

Starring Victor Lanoux, Mirella Tomassini, Pascale Montpetit, Henri Chassé, Dino Tavarone and Jude-Antoine Jarda.

Myriam, a young Sephardic woman in Montreal, sets out to make a new life for herself after a relationship ends. At the same time, her father (Victor Lanoux) comes back into her life after a 20 year absence, and she meets Lou, a young squatter and ramer. Fine drama and humor are interspersed with meditative reveries on her childhood in North Africa.
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