Themes: Crisis of Conscience, Single Parents, Mothers and Sons
Main Cast: Carmen Maura, Didier Bezace, Samuel Mussen, Jean-Pierre Cassel, André Delvaux
Release Year: 1992
Country: ES/FR/BE
Run Time: 80 minutes
Plot
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a man she's not very interested in. It's not at all irrelevant that her news beat includes stories on terrorism, the greenhouse effect, pollution and genetic engineering, because when her baby's due date comes and goes, she starts hearing from her infant from in the womb. It is telling her that it and many other babies are refusing to be born into such a horrible world. She learns that this is true, and that the children born through induced labor are dying. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Johan Leysen - Hans; Serge-Henri Valcke - Peter; Pascale Tison - Jane; Patrick Massieu - Nursery Director; Pierre Laroche - 3rd Gynecologist
Credit
Henri Colpi - Artistic Advisor, Yan Tax - Costume Designer, Marion Hänsel - Director, Susanna Rossberg - Editor, Takashi Kako - Composer (Music Score), Marion Hänsel - Producer, Thierry Leproust - Set Designer, Henri Morelle - Sound/Sound Designer, Marion Hänsel - Screenwriter, Jaco van Dormael - Screenwriter, Michele Troncon - Production Director
