Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- Belgium, France, Germany
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
- future
- flashback
- magic realism
- childhood
- unreliable narrator
- switched at birth
The bill
- Mireille Perrier — Adult Evelyne
- Sandrine Blancke — Alice
- Peter Böhlke — Old Alfred
- Didier Ferney — Adult Alfred
- Hugo Harold-Harrison — Child Alfred
- Pascal Duquenne — Adult Cèlestin
- Karim Moussati — Child Cèlestin
- Léopold Verlaine-Corbion — Baby Thomas
- Maxime Verspecht — Thomas at 1
- Alice van Dormael — Thomas at 1
- Damien Delaunoy — Thomas at 3
- Directed
- Jaco Van Dormael
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 127 ratings
- Studio
- Iblis Films, Pan-Européenne, Triton Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
