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Madame Edouard

Nadin Monfils
Année de sortie au Luxembourg 2004
Année de sortie au Luxembourg 2004
Réalisateur Nadin Monfils
Producteur Luxembourgeois SAMSA FILM
Version originale
  • French
Durée 90 minutes minutes
Ventes internationales

TF1 International

Cast and crew
Cast

    Michel Blanc
    Didier Bourdon
    Josiane Balasko
    Dominique Lavanant
    Annie Cordy
    Rufus

Crew

    DOP: Luc Drillon
    Editor : Jacques Raybaut 
    Sound : Didier Codoul
    Perchman : Philippe Kohn 
    Make up: Katja Reinert 
    Costume design : Cynthia Dumont 

Synopsis

The corpses of several young women are found in Brussels, buried behind the graves of famous painters… The right forearm of each corpse is missing. 
Bringing together the threads, Inspector Léon, who has a secret passion for knitting, slowly unravels this strange case. At the centre of the story is Madame Edward, the transvestite cleaning lady at a bar frequented by an array of madcap eccentrics, the "Sudden Death" (Sudden Death is a Belgian beer — la Mort Subite). 
All these comical and humane characters live in a baroque and slightly crazy world tinged with black humour, rooted in the off-key reality of Belgium. 
From this point of view, the Marolles neighbourhood is a unique setting where one can still find "real" people. Like parts of Montmartre in Paris. The same people, with the same slight craziness. However, they are more colourful here because Belgium has something special: a form of humour and tenderness innate to these Northerners who, because the sun rarely shines outside, have put all its warmth in their hearts. A mystery too, locked in Magritte’s "Pandora’s box"… and a lust for life that ranges from Brel to Arno, borne by the last barflies who ponder their dreams at five in the morning, over a "Mort Subite" after missing the last tram home.

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