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 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103105/
User Rating: 7.8/10   2,297 votes


http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000ETR71M/

http://www.secondsightfilms.co.uk/cat.php?a=104


DVD Studio: Metrodome Distribution

DVD Release Date: May 15, 2006


Director: Jaco Van Dormael


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Thomas is a bitter old man who feels he has been cheated out of the life that was rightly his because he and another boy were switched at birth during a fire at the hospital. Alfred, the other boy, lives a life of privilege and becomes rich. Thomas is jealous. But in another sense Thomas needs to believe that he was switched because he falls in love with his sister Alice. If he really was switched, they are not related.

The film switches between the three ages of Thomas: the youngster (Thomas Godet), the adult (Jo De Backer) and the bitter old man (Michel Bouquet). The song Boum by famed French singer Charles Trenet continually recurs as an anthem to his nostalgia.

Skilfully cutting between past and present, comedy and tragedy, Van DormaelÆs poignant, dream-like film has been hailed as a true original.



Format: PAL

DVD Size: 7.73 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 91 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 | Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): French DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English



DISC FEATURES:

# Memories of Hero (52 min).
# Francois Schuiten - Architect of an Unfinished Dream (9 min).



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