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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 11-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Cast
Christophe Malavoy
Le père
Leslie Lipkins
Margot
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Guillaume Canet
- Writers
- Guillaume Canet
- Languages
- French
- Countries
- France
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Fun facts 🍿
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Guillaume Canet directs. Christophe Offenstein behind the camera. Laurent Alvarez scores. Agathe Devaux-Charbonnel cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 11-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 228 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Guillaume Canet, shot by Christophe Offenstein. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Original score by Laurent Alvarez. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
- 6Editor Agathe Devaux-Charbonnel shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 7Christophe Malavoy and Leslie Lipkins carry the top of the cast.
- 8IMDB entry: tt0300047 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Christophe Offenstein
- Original score
- Laurent Alvarez
- Editing
- Agathe Devaux-Charbonnel
- Runtime
- 11 min · 0h 11m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- FR
- IMDB
- Je taim (1998)
Also by
Guillaume Canet
Production companies
Who made it
Trésor Films
FR
Key crew
- Executive ProducerLaurent Taïeb
- EditorAgathe Devaux-Charbonnel
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1998-01-01
