Call Me Elisabeth (2006)
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?
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
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Alba Gaïa Bellugi as Betty/Elisabeth |
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Stéphane Freiss as Régis |
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Maria de Medeiros as Mado |
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Yolande Moreau as Rose |
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Benjamin Ramon as Yvon |
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Lauriane Sire as Agnès |
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Daniel Znyk as L'homme du chenil |
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Patrick Pierron as Gendarme |
| Directing | Jean-Pierre Améris | Director |
| Writing | Jean-Pierre Améris | Writer |
| Writing | Guillaume Laurant | Writer |
| Writing | Anne Wiazemsky | Novel |
| Production | Laurent Champoussin | Executive Producer |
| Production | Fabienne Vonier | Producer |
| Sound | Philippe Sarde | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Stéphane Fontaine | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Laurence Briaud | Editor |
| Production | Tatiana Vialle | Casting |
| Art | Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dorothée Guiraud | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Armel Corre | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jimmy Springard | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Pascale Fournier | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Jonathan Liebling | Foley Artist |
