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Call Me Elisabeth (2006)

Call Me Elisabeth (2006)

Drama
Release Date: 2006, November 15
Directors: Jean-Pierre Améris
Countries: France
Production: France 3 Cinéma, Pyramide Productions
Cast: Maria de Medeiros, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Yolande Moreau, Stéphane Freiss, Daniel Znyk, Benjamin Ramon, Patrick Pierron, Lauriane Sire

Overview:

A 10-year-old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of other "phenomenoms" including a haunted château nearby, she curiously accepts a stranger she finds in her mansion's barn. This fact contradicts her fearful nature, but fulfills her loneliness. The stranger has run away from a nearby psychiatric clinic, where her father was treating the stranger. She hides the stranger, protects him, and he becomes her best friend. Is this girl searching for true companionship, coming of age, or is she asserting her independence for the first time in her short life?