La liberté d'une statue

Jan 26 1991 N/A 1h 30m
Fantasy

Sometime long ago, probably a few years before moving picture photography was supposed to have been invented, a woman named Anne (Lucille Fluet) is discovered to have miraculous powers. She can magically transform ordinary objects when she sneezes. She has even brought the dead back to life. We know about her, because she sneezed a movie camera into existence, and the film was (miraculously, of course) preserved in the Egyptian desert. However, she didn't live so long ago that she wasn't hounded by life insurance salesmen, just like everyone else in the modern era. Rather than being outcaste for her abilities, she is valued by a group of science-oriented men, who also manage to record on a sneezed-into-existence phonograph the sound which is later to be added to the film by its "discoverers."

Plot

An old Egyptian silent movie restored with great care and dubbed by a couple of lip-reading deaf mutes relates the story of a young girl wandering in the desert hoping upon an heroic life until she resurrects a dead man with a sneeze. This miracle attracts the attention of a lot of people, especially, from a greedy businessman and from a scientist, both trying to get as much as possible from her.

Written by

Olivier Asselin

Directed by

Olivier Asselin

Cast

Lucille Fluet, Ronald Houle, Serge Christiaenssens

Crew

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Production Countries

Canada

Languages

Français

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
31
Average Rating
7.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA