Scene from the film Babel - Letter to my Friends who Stayed in Belgium (Part 1)
Scene from the film Babel - Letter to my Friends who Stayed in Belgium (Part 1)
Scene from the film Babel - Letter to my Friends who Stayed in Belgium (Part 1)
Scene from the film Babel - Letter to my Friends who Stayed in Belgium (Part 1)
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Babel - Letter to my Friends who Stayed in Belgium (Part 1)

Direction
Year 
1991
Country
  • Belgium
Runtime
159min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

The first episode of a film tetralogy called Babel, Letter to my friend who stayed in Belgium narrates the day-to-day existence of a film-maker who is making a film about Babel and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. Of no fixed abode, he wanders around the city where he feels at home - Brussels - but eventually sets off for Mexico. On his return, nothing is in quite the same place and people have changed. The problems left behind resurface. He loses his employment, has to find new lodgings, quarrels with his friends and - from being the most sociable of persons - ends up on his own, mournfully singing Parlez-moi d'amour ! Likewise, the city is disintegrating and the whole kingdom seems threatened. This film is a diary and self-portrait of film-maker Boris Lehman who films himself and plays his own role (as do several hundred friends and acquaintances who all agreed to be babelized), but at the same time it is a fictional account of the thousand and one adventures of a hero who finds it hard to cope with life and love.

Details

  • Original Title
    Babel - lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique
  • Direction
  • Cinematography
    Michael Sander, Antoine-Marie Meert
  • Editing
    Daniel De Valck
  • Sound
    Henri Morelle, Antoine Bonfanti
  • Runtime
    159 min (91+ min.)
  • Year
    1991
  • Country
    • Belgium
  • Format
    • Colour
  • Distribution

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