Blank (2009 film)

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L'absence
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French poster
Directed by Cyril de Gasperis
Written byCyril de Gasperis
Produced byCyril de Gasperis
Jean-Christophe Soulageon
Starring Liliane Rovère
Cecile Coustillac
Jocelyne Desverchère
Jean-Baptiste Malartre
CinematographySophie Cadet
Edited byAlexandra Melot
Release dates
  • 28 August 2009 (2009-08-28)(Angoulême Film Festival)
  • 10 March 2010 (2010-03-10)(France)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Blank is a 2009 French drama, written and directed by Cyril de Gasperis. Its original French title is L'absence.

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Plot

Home care assistant, Felicia is charged with spending her days with Anna, a woman in her sixties who suffers from dementia and requires constant care. When Anna's husband vanishes, the two women then continue their life together in a world apart, losing slowly all sense of time and self.

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