The Swing - Trailer
Open City Documentary Festival • 1m 55s
An assured, emotionally rich film about the lies a family tells to keep their patriarch happy. After sixty years of marriage, Antoine and Vivi have lost their most beloved daughter; but no one has dared to tell the bedridden nonagenarian Antoine, lest his heart crack.
Dir. Cyril Aris - 74min - 2018 - Lebanon
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