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VIDANGE PERDUE




YEAR: 2006
COUNTRY: Belgium
PRODUCER: Mariano Vanhoof
DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Enthoven
SCRIPT: Jacques Boon and Geoffrey Enthoven
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gerd Schelfhout
MUSIC: Tom Kestens and Pascal Garnier
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Bart Van Loo
FILM EDITOR: Philippe Rabote
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Dutch
CAST: Nand Buyl, Viviane De Muynck, Marijke Pinoy, Leo Achten, Misée Wyns and Liesje Patteet.
GENRE: Drama
DURATION: 90 Minutes


Sinopsis:
Lucien is in his eighties but that doesn't stop him from being stubborn. Following his wife's death he refuses to stay any longer at Gerda's, his fretful 40-year old daughter and moves back into his empty house. Mathilde, the enormous wife of his best friend Felix, gives him a hand with the housekeeping. Lucien and Mathilde have been 'doing it' for a long time. But Lucien soon finds out that the loneliness is hard to cope with.

The only relationship that he truly cares about is that with his sprightly granddaughter Julie who will soon leave for Paris to continue her studies. When Lucien meets his new neighbour Sylvia, he is getting more and more intrigued by this interesting woman. Thanks to Sylvia Lucien manages to start a new life. She teaches him new tricks for the household, takes him to the supermarket and gives him his first computer lesson. But when their friendship reaches a point of no return, Lucien takes a radical decision.


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Geoffrey Enthoven graduated in 1999 at the KASK as Master in the Audio-visual Arts. His final project The undertaker was awarded with several prizes and was shown abroad in various countries. In that same year he and Mario Vanhoof started the production company Fobic Films. In 2001 they made the feature film Children of love, which won the Audience Award at the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent. The two of them also participated in The voice on wings (2003). Vidange perdue is their second feature film. Geoffrey is also a freelance director of commercials, he makes videoclips and directs fiction series for numerous production companies.