LOST PARADISE

By Ève Deboise

Year 2011

Running time 93’

With Pauline Etienne, Olivier Rabourdin, Florence Thomassin, Ouassini Embarek, Cédric Vieira, Tilla Perez-Houis

Synopsis Seventeen-year-old Lucie lives with her father, Hugo, in a plant nursery in the south of France. Their work keeps them in touch with nature on a daily basis; it absorbs them and makes up for the absence of Lucie's mother, who left a year earlier and hasn't been heard from since. This absence reinforces the bond - tender and suffocating, reassuring and dangerous - between father and daughter. But one day, Lucie's mother returns, provoking Hugo's jealousy and uncontrollable anger.

Produced by
Blue Monday Productions

Co-produced by
France 3 Cinéma, Fontana (Belgium)

French Distribution
Epicentre Films

Supported by
CNC, Languedoc-Roussillon, Aquitaine, Ciné+, French-speaking Community of Belgium, Fondation Groupama Gan, France Télévision Distribution

Laureate of the Fondation Gan for Cinema, 2009