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Babel: A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium

Jan 1, 1991 · 6h 20m
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Documentary
Comedy

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The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the centre of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be “babelised“).

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CAST

Boris Lehman
self
Nathalie Balou
self
François Beukelaers
self
Maggy Collard
self
Kathleen de Béthune
self
Chistine Defrise
self
Directed by Boris Lehman

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Status
Released
Original language
FR
Budget
—
Revenue
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Production
Dovfilm, Paradise Films
Country
BE
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