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Boxes is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jane Birkin with Geraldine Chaplin

Boxes (2007)

Boxes
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Length 1h35
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Biography
Rating51% 2.585362.585362.585362.585362.58536

Boxes (French: Les Boites) is a 2007 French film and the directorial debut of Jane Birkin. Birkin also stars alongside Geraldine Chaplin and Michel Piccoli. The film is based on Birkin's own family life, chronicling three marriages and the three children she bore from these marriages. The title alludes to the way in which she compartmentalises these relationships and stages of her life. The film was nominated for the Grand Prix at the Bratislava International Film Festival. The film was screened in Un Certain Regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May. It was released in France on 6 June 2007.

Synopsis

In Brittany, a middle-aged woman, Anna lives in a rambling home with her sometime dead father (Piccoli), her opinionated mother (Chaplin) and the memories of her three grown-up daughters. As Anna struggles with her mid-life crisis, the possessions and photographs in the home begin to spark her memories of childhood and earlier adulthood.

Actors

Geraldine Chaplin

(Maman)Michel Piccoli

(Papa)Jane Birkin

(Anna)Natacha Régnier

(Fanny)Lou Doillon

(Camille)
And :
John Hurt
Maurice Bénichou
Tchéky Karyo
Annie Girardot
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