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À perdre la raison

À perdre la raison

2012Movie⏱️ 1h 51mNot Rated
CrimeDrama
6.8
IMDB Rating
3,260 votes

Happy couple, will marry and have children under the roof of the benevolent Doctor. Little by little, relationships become complex, suffocating the couple and the family, who are unaware of the tragic end towards which they are he...

Director
Joachim Lafosse
Writers
Matthieu Reynaert, Thomas Bidegain, Joachim Lafosse
Stars
Émilie Dequenne, Claire Bodson, Niels Arestrup
Release Date
May 30, 2012
Language
French, Arabic
Country
Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland
🏆 9
Wins
🎯 12
Nominations
💬 14
Reviews
📋 6.6K
Watchlists
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🎭 Top Cast

Émilie Dequenne
Émilie Dequenne
as Murielle
👤
Claire Bodson
as La femme policier hopital
Niels Arestrup
Niels Arestrup
as André Pinget
Tahar Rahim
Tahar Rahim
as Mounir
👤
Jean-Charles Hautera
as Professeur Maryns
👤
Stéphane Bissot
as Françoise
👤
Daniel Feis
as Le pianiste
👤
Baya Belal
as Rachida
👤
Mounia Raoui
as Fatima
👤
Redouane Behache
as Samir

💰 Box Office

$700,215
Worldwide Gross
$23,203
Domestic Gross
$5,500
Opening Weekend

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Filming Location
Dudelange, Luxembourg
Production
Versus Production, Samsa Film, Les Films du Worso

🏷️ Keywords

postpartum depressiondownward spiralchildrenlovedoctor

🎯 Categories

FrenchCrimeDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Horrible act. Terrible destiny
by guy-bellinger2015-12-15
8/10

"The film is directly inspired by the case of Geneviève Lhermitte, a Belgian woman who, in 2008, brutally murdered her five children. What in the world drove this hitherto model mother to such a barbarous act... is the anguished question asked by writer-director Joachim Lafosse (also Belgian) in this intense if somewhat restrained drama. A question all the harder to answer when the deplorable "heroine" of this family tragedy was at a loss, as she put it, "to understand what has happened, for I still haven't understood. I acted the opposite way to what I thought." Lafo..."

💡 Did You Know?

The official entry of Belgium to the Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards 2013.

📖 Synopsis

Happy couple, will marry and have children under the roof of the benevolent Doctor. Little by little, relationships become complex, suffocating the couple and the family, who are unaware of the tragic end towards which they are he...