EMOTIONAL ARITHMETIC
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A summer day, a lake, a house, a dinner table set outside, the promise of an upcoming celebration. Melanie has fulfilled her life’s dream of reuniting Jakob and Christopher. She hasn’t seen them in more than 40 years since the three of them were freed in 1943 from a transit camp for those who were to be sent to the death camps.
Jakob was caught in the grips of history; having survived Auschwitz and Soviet mental institutions, he has now become a poet. Christopher cut himself off from the world; he studies insects and has buried deep down his untold love for Melanie. Melanie married David and has survived endless depressions. In her old age, she has become a lively, crazy nomad in her own story.
Can we let past suffering suffocate our present? And what about love in all of this?
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Paolo Barzman
Director
Paolo Barzman began his creative career in painting and graphic arts at the Académie Jullian in Paris and at the University of California in Los Angeles. At 19, he was hired by director Jean Renoir as his secretary in Los Angeles. Paolo’s debut as a writer/director was with the feature film Time is Money starring Max von Sydow, Charlotte Rampling and Martin Landau. A successful television director in North America and Europe, he has made 11 MOWs including All Around Town, starring Nastassja Kinski, and You Belong to Me, starring Lesley Anne Down. Other credits include Adventure Inc., Highlander, Largo Winch, Relic Hunter, Lonesome Dove, and 15/Love.
35 mm
100 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
2.35
Original version in English
Dubbed and subtitled in French
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Producers
Suzanne Girard
Anna Stratton
Director
Paolo Barzman
Scriptwriters
Jefferson Lewis
Director of Photography
Luc Montpellier
Editor
Arthur Tarnowski
Sound
Dimitri Médard
Cast
Susan Sarandon
Christopher Plummer
Max Von Sydow
Roy Dupuis
Gabriel Byrne
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Production
BBR Productions inc.
3430, rue Saint-Denis
Bureau 300
Montreal Quebec
H2X 3L3
Canada
(514) 288-0080
(514) 288-0081
info@bbrprod.com
www.bbrprod.com
Triptych Media Inc.
788 King St. W.
2nd Floor
Toronto Ontario
M5V 1N6
Canada
(416) 703-8866
(416) 703-8867
info@triptychmedia.ca
www.triptychmedia.ca
Distribution – Canada
Seville Pictures inc.
400, boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest
Bureau 1120
Montreal Quebec
H3A 1L4
Canada
(514) 841-1910
(514) 841-8030
info@sevillepictures.com
www.sevillepictures.com
International distribution
Celluloïd Dreams
2, rue Turgot
Paris
75009
France
33 1 49 70 03 70
33 1 49 70 03 71
info@celluloid-dreams.com
www.celluloid-dreams.com
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